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Essential Pépin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food
by Jacques Pépin
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| Disclaimer: I am veg(etari)an and so cannot speak to the quality or interestingness of the recipes in the chapters involving animals. I can only report seeing a few recipes with names like "Turkey Carcass with..." or "Calf Brains and..." before quick...more | |
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The Drowned and the Saved
by Primo Levi
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You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
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“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
― Leo Tolstoy
― Leo Tolstoy
“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov
― Anton Chekhov
“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin
― George Carlin
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi
― Rumi, Essential Rumi
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