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to: Vegetarian Table : North Africa (Paperback)byKitty Morse
This is one of my favorite cookbooks ... not only is it the flavorful Moroccan and Algerian cuisine, but this book is entirely vegetarian. The author, Kitty Morse, also wrote a Moroccan cookbook that is regarded as one of the best on North African cuisine ever written, and she has a number of pungent tangines, appetizers and soups (all vegetarian) which are quite tasty. I also enjoy the entire series of the "Vegetarian Table", but this is in my opinion, the best in the entire series!
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Merv Griffin: A Life in the Closet (Hardcover)
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Chasing Medical Miracles: The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials (Paperback)
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<![CDATA[Scott added 'Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, Diabetes']]>
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to: Growing Up Again: Life, Love and Oh Yeah, Diabetes (Hardcover)byMary Tyler Moore
Unlike Mary Tyler Moore's original autobiography "After All", her newest book "Growing Up Again" is more focused on her life with type 1 diabetes. In general, I found the book more truthful about life with diabetes, Chapter 3 begins with one of several truths about what life with diabetes is really like that one seldom reads in books from so-called "experts". She writes at the beginning of Chapter 3: "Spontaneity is one of the first of life's pleasures that's lost when diabetes appears. Everything must be thought out carefully before doing almost anything."
Although Mary is honest about the realities, I do believe that she allowed outside interests in JDRF and other diabetes experts mute her opinions more than a truly honest review might have. She closes this paragraph, which would otherwise be true with what I believe is unnecessary and adds nothing to an otherwise excellent observation by writing "If you don't control diabetes, it will control you." Sorry, but there are HUNDREDS of other books that give these platitudes, and she isn't breaking any new ground by adding such an unnecessary statement. In effect, she ruins what could have been a truly honest overview about life with type 1 diabetes, and from my perspective, she also does a tremendous disservice to her objective behind writing the book.
Having said this, I do think she walks a fine line as international chairwoman of JDRF, with accompanying responsibilities associated with that role, so I give her credit for an honest attempt, even if I do think she missed a great opportunity to be more brutally frank than most of the other literature out there does. In all, I think she has done a pretty good job, but I wish she had been somewhat less reliant on her advisers and editors and more forthcoming about the realities of living with diabetes, rather than trying to appease everyone.
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