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  <read_at>Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BliD4qkNSLU/SRs9OtRWgcI/AAAAAAAADmk/34D_bSg_-Eo/s1600-h/2758655941_0da807df71.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BliD4qkNSLU/SRs9OtRWgcI/AAAAAAAADmk/34D_bSg_-Eo/s200/2758655941_0da807df71.jpg" alt="" class="escapedImg"/></a><strong><br/></strong><strong>When Ugo DiFonte and his teenaged daughter Miranda are snatched from their farm and spirited away to Duke Federico Basillione DiVincelli’s estate, Ugo thinks life can’t get any worse… until he is forced to replace the recently de-tongued royal food taster. Now Ugo must stay alive - a dif...</strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29978649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit more graphic and violent than I expected given the title (when there is plauge, suicide, and bestiality in the first four pages you know you are in for a ride), but probably in line with the times.  Our friend Ugo and his teen daughter are taken from their farm and Ugo is ordereed to be the fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18511406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book of a shelf in Fair Haven NY where it was available at a local book drop. The shelves were lined with summer reading and other fare, and you were asked to leave some money if you took a book. I found this one, and some others, and left a $20. <br/><br/>This is a Mad Magazine styl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63652587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugo DiFonte wasn't born under a lucky star, when he was just a little boy his mother caught the plague and hanged herself right in front of him. His father never recovered from her death and seemed to blame Ugo for it, starting to brush him aside and preferring his brother in everything. When he was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9843154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I might have already reviewed this book, but maybe I didn't.  I didn't like it.  In fact, I didn't even finish it.  I keep meaning to put a category for my choosing that says, &quot;Didn't Care to Finish&quot;.  There were several not nice words in this book, within the first 60 pages.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72094963">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18659578">
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally read the book. Ugo Difonte, the food taster, tells his history in first person. He had a long journey before he became famous for being, as he described himself, the best food taster in Italy. As a food taster he developed a highly accurate sense of taste, and was capable of describing eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18659578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Itália do século XVI, Ugo di Fonte é um camponês esfomeado, pai duma rapariguinha pequena e viúvo do amor da sua vida. Quando esbarra com um mal amado Duque (Frederico) torna-se, em alternativa à sua morte, seu Food Taster, já que o anterior tinha acabado de morrer...<br/>É a vida de Ugo e ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20470126">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short book that seemed very long. Despite the simple linear plot, the storytelling became confused at the end. Even though Ugo, the main character faces death at every meal as a food taster, I felt that the book dragged in a lot of places because the author wasn't successfully able to maintain tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10502822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice to read about renaissance Italy, but it was wasn't the most fluid of writing, and was fairly predictable.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="58849815">
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    <body><![CDATA[Disliked it so much, I couldn't even finish reading it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Food during the time of Kings and Peasants.]]></body>
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    <review id="27340405">
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    <body><![CDATA[This could have been an instruction booklet on how to survive the Italian Renaissance. The main character is a delightful rascal who kept me laughing as well as amazed with his &quot;sleight of hand&quot; tricks of survival. <br/><br/>If you love (1) historical fiction, (2) well written characters...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27340405">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creative story about life as a food taster, serving a hated Duke in Corsoli, Italy. Probably takes place in 16th century. Very entertaining, could be a Shakespearian play. Vicious love triangle. His daughter is in love with the cook, the Duke is in love with his daughter...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the food taster is a hazardous job as one can imagine. A sight, sound and food of Italy's high renaissance. Crazy funny and melodramatic.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my BKK friend's favorite books, but I had a hard time getting through it... too much emphasis on cooking, maybe]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun, enjoyable story, though at times a bit much violence for my liking... recommended though.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely fantastic.  A very quick moving book: funny, graphic, surreal - good entertainment]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[historical fiction:Italy 1500's-----------peasant rises to food taster to courtier<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[silly fun book.]]></body>
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