Gulfstream

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article1192079.ece Fifty-year-old Bill Buford—former editor of Granta, and former literary editor of The New Yorker—recently spent two years working in various New York kitchens, including that of Mario Batali’s Babbo: “Babbo’s kitchen combined two of Buford’s great loves: combative male bonding and learning. ‘The kitchen was a kind of aggressive, hands-on university,’ he admits. ‘The excitement I felt was akin to reading John Donne for the first time or finally getting a command of Shakespeare. It was the kind of excitement I had in university.’” 22:41