the cautionary tale of bill buford. good job as fiction editor at the prestigious "new yorker" magazine. at undignified age of 53, he pretty much pulled up stakes, put his whole past life on hold, and defected to france to learn how to cook. what happened to you anyway, buford? you used to have a good job, you hang out a couple of nights with batali and the next thing you know you're living in france and cooking. >> bill: it's true. i discovered a whole world that the rest of the world didn't seem to know about. just a very compressed, intense lifelong learned expertise and knowledge of food. it's not the food network, and it's not glossy magazines, and it's not something you'd get from reading a recipe book. it's something you get by just going deep. i was afraid of france because i knew if i went, took on the subject of french food, i'd have to go really deep. so we went, and we thought we'd stay for six months. and we -- we stayed for five years. >> anthony: we meet at bouchon comptoir abel. a bouchon is a uniquely l

during the civil war, she became the first american woman ever to lead troops into battle near bufordcarolina. >> they blew up the bridge. they liberated 750 enslaved people off the plantations along that river, and the newspapers at the time wrote about this raid, and they credited the raid to the black mosess. >> reporter: harriet tubman had an amazing ability to be at the center of history. her friends abolitionists frederick douglass and john brown. tubman was a campaigner for women's suffrage alongside susan b. anthony. she spent the last 50 years of her remarkable life here in auburn, new york, where william henry seward, president abraham lincoln's secretary of state and his wife francis offered their friendship and support. >> she was a regular guest here. social visitor, welcomed here. so we're in the old house kitchen. >> reporter: jeff ludwig is education director at the seward house museum in auburn. >> it was known that harriet tubman was looking to place her family somewhere and to plant roots somewhere, to build a home for herself. and so they offer her a piece of land.

democratss, on the line in buford, north carolina. good morning. i was calling in to possibly put this out there. medical commercials on news channels and whatnot, on regular tv. i feel like they are promoting a permissive drug culture in the country and i wish they were not around. some countries don't have these commercials and it does not promote anything great. it just says that we are in this country that likes to take a lot of medications to solve our problems. that's all i had to say. thank you. host: on the front page of the new york times, diplomats say that you the u.s. did little to stop turkey. the top diplomat on the ground in northern syria has criticized the trump administration for not trying harder to prevent turkish presence at saying that were crimes were committed and ethnic cleansing was done by turkey. in a searing memo william roebuck weight -- raised the question as to whether tougher diplomacy and economic sanctions and military patrols could have deterred turkey from attacking. similar measures have dissuaded military acti