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Book: Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper

Posted on Sunday, June 21, 2009 by Beanbag

Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop. W. W. Norton & Company, 2008. Fuchsia Dunlop gives us an entertaining account of how she fell in love with Chinese food and cooking, as … Continue reading →

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Book: Heat

Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 by Beanbag

Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford. Anchor Canada, 2007 In Heat, Bill Buford, a writer for The New Yorker, leaves his job to become a … Continue reading →

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