 | Shaving lamb's tongues, destroying everything from sea bass to duck during dinner rushes, and putting up with constant mockery were just the initial experiences of former New Yorker fiction editor Bill Buford during his long stint as a "kitchen... |
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 | Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horrible marriage to... |
 | Written in 1899, this cookbook was devised by an Englishwoman who lived near Florence and who took immediately to the Italian idea that vegetables are the most important part of a meal. |
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