I returned from Europe to find the advance copy of the paperback of Cuisine and Empire waiting for me, ready to add to the hardback. It’s a lovely chubby volume,…
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I didn’t. And now I do. Don’t you just love it when some chance event opens a whole new perspective on some bit of history? That happened to me this…
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One of the little games I play with myself is seeing if I can tie different parts of my life together in ways that are illuminating, to me at any…
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