hotsnack: buford 4 free

I picked up a copy of The New Yorker today at my local newsstand, hoping to read Bill Buford’s article about pastry savant Will Goldfarb.

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Buford is a hot topic these days, thanks to his scorching bestseller Heat, the Mario Batali biography cum mid-life-crisis culinary odyssey.  People have been buzzing about the Goldfarb story, speculating that it’s his next book topic. My sources at Random House say Heat was the first in a three-book deal. Perhaps Buford will shed some light on this theory later tonight.

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I happily put down my $3.99 for the last copy, anticipating a good read on my subway ride down to Snack HQ. Then I realized – too late – that it was the last copy because it was last week’s issue. Sigh. Once out of the train, I found another newsstand, plunked down another $3.99. I should have waited, because when I got to Snack HQ, I opened my in-box and read the following dispatch from the PR machine at 4 Times Square.

For Immediate Release: June 21, 2006

Bill Buford on The Prince of Pastry

Bill Buford writes about his experience serving as an apprentice to pastry chef Will Goldfarb at his new New York restaurant, Room 4 Dessert, in the June 26th issue of The New Yorker.

Attachment: complete_article.pdf deleted on 6.23.06

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I just saved you $7.98.

Comments

[mary]

Is it just me, or does Goldfarb remind you of Kurtz from Apocalypse Now?

[omar]

i just read this in my new yorker and wanted to send it to friends! damn the new yorker! can't i buy the article online somehow!

omar