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My Life in France kwa Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme
wewe must know Julia Child kwa name if not kwa reputation. The cook of all cooks. The woman who revolutionized American household kitchens; she entered the nyumbani kwa TV and left us groaning, having just gorged on prodigious French food. But that really isn't her, Julia Child declares, in her book. My Life in France is an amazing, humanizing potrait of Julia Child as we peek into her life before fame and (can wewe belive it?) her life before she could cook (she claims that she was horrible in the jikoni before moving to France and attended cooking classes). The best thing about this book, besides its wonderful writing? The idea that wewe can become a master when wewe are older; that a skill doesn't have to be innate, it can be learnt.


A Chef's Life: In tafuta of the Perfect Meal kwa Anthony Bourdain
Written kwa "bad boy" chef Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: In tafuta of the Perfect Meal will provoke envy and jealousy when wewe read about how he gets paid to travel the world (Barcelona, Vietnam, Russia, etc.), experience out-of-this-world meals and then write about it, all the while thumbing his nose as us unlucky tied-to-the-office civilians. Bourdain's prose is refreshingly vulgar without being unnecessarily obscene; he savors wonderfully awkward experiences and provides purely-classic side notes that will mark wewe bark out laughter (for my favorite, see below). Only for readers who would be willing to, with Bourdain, drink snake wine.

[Upon describing how oysters change sexes from year-to-year.]
"If wewe were tell an oyster 'Go f**k yourself,' it would probably not be offended".


Plenty : one man, one woman, and a raucous mwaka of eating locally kwa Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon
This is a book I discovered first kwa listening to the authors discuss their experience, which in turn interested me enough to read the book. Canadian couple Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon simply decided one siku to eat nothing but local foods from within a 100 mile radius for an entire year. Foods not easy accessible within the radius? Coffee. Sugar. Wheat. A very interesting and inspiring story; makes me want to attempt the same (so did my father, until he heard about the coffee limitation.)

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French Women Don't Get Fat kwa Mireille Guiliano
Wait -- Aren't the French known for their food? Why aren't they fat like us? Guiliano tries to enlighten us hefty Westerners on the French paradox: how to enjoy chakula and stay slim and healthy. Some of the hints: drink a lot of water; take the stairs instead of the elevator. Hmm -- who would of thunk of that? A quick read and a nifty and entertaining story.




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For a lot of people with chronic disease, the inability to work is a difficult and frustrating reality. Contrary to common misconceptions that not working must be "nice." au must be like taking an "extended vacation," the lack of a job for medical reasons can have significant consequences on a person's sense if identity--not to mentions finances and interpersonal relationships.

Writer Randy Jernigan recently shed some light on this reality while he was a guest on Donny Max's 'Lets Talk About It' radio program out of Seattle. Randy, who has been diagnosed with End Stage Renal Failure, Chronic...
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