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My Favorite Cookbooks I heard recently on the news that supermarkets are losing market share in the U.S. and industrialized countries abroad to businesses that sell prepared meals, packaged foods which one can pop into the microwave. In the very busy world in which we live, people simply don’t have the time to …
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Like most readers, I suspect, in these busy times, I seem to do the majority of my reading about eleven o’clock at night, climbing into bed with a book after a very long day, perhaps with a groan or two of exhaustion. At such moments, I do not want James Joyce, probably not even Dostoevski; what I want is …
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As humans, we take ourselves fairly seriously, imaging we are in charge of the world around us. One of the pivotal moments in our history, anthropologists like to say, is when mankind learned to domesticate plants, becoming farmers instead of hunter-gatherers, thereby insuring a steady food supply and giving birth to …
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Welcome to Book Chat, a column in which we’re going to discuss many things bookish: chat with authors, talk about publishing, romp back and forth through the centuries, and more often than not recommend a pick of the week. Fasten your seat belts because we’re going to go from history to histrionics, biography to …
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