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	Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search of His Roots by John Thorne (Goodreads Author), Matt Lewis Thorne 4.33 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simple Cooking 4.44 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1987 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outlaw Cook by John Thorne (Goodreads Author), Matt Lewis Thorne 4.20 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pot on the Fire: Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook by John Thorne (Goodreads Author), Matt Lewis Thorne 4.35 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His Appetite by John Thorne (Goodreads Author), Matt Lewis Thorne 3.96 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devious Dreams: Reimagining David Lynch's Mulholland Drive 4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Body by John Thorne (Goodreads Author), Russell Christian (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Cookbooks can be wonderfully entertaining and informative, but I don’t like having to bring them with me to the stove. My goal as a cook has always been not so much to attain some specific sense of mastery as to be able to just go into the kitchen, take up what I find there, and make a meal of it.”
― John Thorne, Simple Cooking

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“American cooking was once a patchwork quilt of tiny, idiosyncratic cuisines, where each separate community worked its personal touch on what were then our common foodstuffs—mostly game, pork, poultry, com, and the produce of the kitchen garden—making a wealth of related but dissimilar dishes with homely names like holy pokes, huffjuffs, and Baptist bread. When we all got connected together, these dishes were merged and homogenized, subtle distinctions were first muddied and then lost entirely.”
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