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April 21
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Amanda
marked as to-read:
Run (Hardcover)
by Ann Patchett
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November 12
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Amanda
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson
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October 26
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October 25
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Amanda
marked as to-read:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Hardcover)
by Barbara Kingsolver
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October 05
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Amanda
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Hardcover)
by Bill Buford
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read in October, 2007
Amanda said:
"A must-read for foodies and Slow Foodies.
In one passage of the book, Bill Buford becomes preoccupied with researching when, in the long history of food on the Italian peninsula, cooks started putting eggs into their pasta dough. He decides to go...more
A must-read for foodies and Slow Foodies.
In one passage of the book, Bill Buford becomes preoccupied with researching when, in the long history of food on the Italian peninsula, cooks started putting eggs into their pasta dough. He decides to go on a quest to Italy and meets with the cook at La Volta, a small restaurant in the town of Porretta Terme. Mario Batali lived and worked here during an internship before going to New York and opening Babbo. He considers the cook, Betta, and all the others associated with La Volta, extended family. And so Buford sets out to meet her and find out about pasta and what inspired Batali.
Buford writes(page 198 of the hardcover):
Betta's tortellini are now in my head and in my hands. I follow her formula for the dough--an egg for every etto of flour, sneaking in an extra yolk if the mix doesn't look wet enough. I've learned to roll out a sheet until I see the grain of the wood underneath. I let it dry if I'm making tagliatelle; I keep it damp if I'm making tortellini. I make a small batch, roll out a sheet, then another, the rhythm of the pasta, each movement like the last one. My mind empties. I think only of the task. Is the dough too sticky? Will it tear? Does the sheet, held between my fingers, feel right? But often I wonder what Betta would think, and, like that, I'm back in that valley with its broken-combed mountain tops and the wolves at night and the ever-present feeling that the world is so much bigger than you, and my mind becomes a jumble of association, of aunts and a round table and laughter you can't hear anymore, and I am overcome by a feeling of loss. It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often in conditions of adversity, that you end up thinking of the dead, that the very stuff that sustains you tastes somehow of mortality. ...less
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Amanda
is currently reading:
Suite Francaise (Paperback)
by Irene Nemirovsky
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Amanda said:
"We should all be so lucky to have a "work-in-progress" like this. Taking place in France during the impending Nazi occupation, this book focuses up close on the lives of numerous characters' whose stories are gracefully and poignantly woven...more
We should all be so lucky to have a "work-in-progress" like this. Taking place in France during the impending Nazi occupation, this book focuses up close on the lives of numerous characters' whose stories are gracefully and poignantly woven together.
The author wrote this book during the same time period, while living in the French countryside. She was arrested and deported to Auschwitz where she died. This novel was only discovered several years ago. Truly remarkable. I can't put it down. ...less
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September 09
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Amanda
marked as to-read:
Bridge of Sighs (Hardcover)
by Richard Russo
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Amanda
marked as to-read:
The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese (Hardcover)
by Margaret Hathaway
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