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Chef Daniel Boulud accused of putting food coloring in his pasta

Any good memoir contains some juicy secrets — but some are almost too sordid to repeat. Bill Buford makes the stunning claim in his new book “Dirt” that famed chef Daniel Boulud puts food coloring in his pasta to make it look more yellow. “When I later found myself in Boulud’s kitchen, and I was …

Any good memoir contains some juicy secrets — but some are almost too sordid to repeat.

Bill Buford makes the stunning claim in his new book “Dirt” that famed chef Daniel Boulud puts food coloring in his pasta to make it look more yellow.

“When I later found myself in Boulud’s kitchen, and I was on my own downstairs, among the prep cooks, I fell into admiring the deep egg-yolky tortellini that the pasta guy was making,”

Buford writes in his new memoir about learning to cook French food, “and after asking if I could see the recipe discovered that, oh my, it included yellow food coloring.”

Will his reputation ever recover? We reached out to Boulud for comment.

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