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    <body><![CDATA[Conceptually neat. It's a compilation of excerpts from famous writers throughout history on food; the authors range from Maimonides to James Beard to George Orwell to Alice B. Toklas, the topics from food of the Americas to the origin of chocolate to  how to disguise other meats as venison. I didn't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52412853">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[MCL.  I only read the essays that interested me.  It's a hard book to rate because there is such a variety of subjects and authors.  <br/><br/>My favorite essay was the one by Brillat-Savarin which began &quot;Every thin woman wants to grow plump: that is an avowal which has been made to us a thou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75307560">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, I was disappointed with this book. Felt a lot like the sort of college freshman copy-shop tomes assigned for a 101 course. Relied a little too heavily on well-known, prolific writers whose texts most serious food writing readers would have already discovered. And in the end, I skipped over ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51538547">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I only skipped through.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Some lovely excerpts from a variety of sources. Unfortunately very few of the excerpts were from post-1980 food writing. That probably made sense from an economic standpoint, but it would really have fleshed out some of the topics nicely. <br/><br/>And in general, less topics but more writing on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10460032">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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