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Good Things
Good Things | Jane Grigson
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The reason for reissuing this book is because it is Jane Grigsons celebration of the seasons and the foods they bring and seasonality is now the top priority of all those who take their eating and cooking seriously. She says in the Introduction to the original edition published in 1971, I feel that delight lies in the seasons and what they bring usthe strawberries that come in May and June straight from the fields, the asparagus of a special occasion, kippers from Craster in July and August, the first lamb of the year from Wales, in October the freshest walnuts from France where they are eaten with new cloudy wine. This is good food..The encouragement of fine food is not greed or gourmandise; it can be seen as an aspect of the anti-pollution movement in that it indicates concern for the quality of environment. This is not the limited concern of a few cranks. Small and medium-sized firms, feeling unable to compete with the cheap products of the giants, turn to producing better food.People in many parts of the country run restaurants specializing in locally produced food, salmon from the Tamar, laver and sewin from the Welsh sea, snails from the Mendips, venison from the moors of Inverness. I notice in the grocers shops in our small town the prominence given to eggs direct from the farm. How prophetic she was when she pointed out to us the importance of locally-produced, fresh food and she wrote those words 35 years ago! The book is divided into sections covering Fish kippers, lobster, mussels and scallops, trout; Meat and Game meat pies, salting meat, snails, sweetbreads, rabbit and hare, pigeon, venison; Vegetables asparagus, carrots, celery, chicory, haricot beans, leeks, mushrooms, parsley, parsnips, peas, spinach, tomatoes; Fruit apple and quince, gooseberries, lemons, prunes, strawberries, walnuts. And importantly the book contains the recipe for her famous curried parsnip soup.
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Reviewsbylola
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Thank you to @Mdargusch for bringing some sunshine to my day by dropping off a surprise gift—this Folio cookbook. 😍 I‘ll have to peruse it for some inspiration. #foliofreaks

Mitch That looks Looooovely 😻 4y
LeahBergen Ohhh, nice! 4y
emilyhaldi I have this one- love the illustrations! 4y
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emilyhaldi
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Cathythoughts That‘s a nice one 👍🏻 5y
LeahBergen Ohhh! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y
valeriegeary 😍 5y
batsy Very nice! 🐔 5y
Reviewsbylola Love! 5y
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RinaBrahmbhattBarot
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Hey Everyone! 23rd April is #WorldBookNight. A night when we pass on books to other people. It can be friend, stranger, dropping a book in public place,hospital, library, prison, shelter etc.. see details here - https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/world-book-night-2019/. Comment in the post if you like to participate 🙏🏼

Soubhiville Oh cool! I‘m all over it! I love passing on books. 5y
JanuarieTimewalker13 That‘s funny bc I‘m reading a book now so that I can pass it on to my former Prof on Tuesday!! 5y
Paula3 Love this. I'll pass on a few 5y
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kspenmoll Love passing on books to my neighbors & little library in our town green at end of my street.❤️📚 5y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @Soubhiville it's today...let's do this :) 5y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @JanuarieTimewalker13 Great idea to pass it to someone you know :) 5y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @Paula3 day..I mean 'night' is here :) 5y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @kspenmoll love it! Let's pass on tonight :) 5y
Paula3 @MyBookSwapClub yay, I'm going to take a few lovelies to my neighbor ♡ 5y
Soubhiville @MyBookSwapClub I dropped some things in both of the closest-to-me Little Free Libraries 🤗📚 5y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @Paula3 great 👍🏼 5y
RinaBrahmbhattBarot @Soubhiville I have dropped it off in a near by mall :) 5y
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ChelseaM6010
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Happy Friday!!!! 😊😊

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AmyG
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Congrats @Booksnchill on your milestone! Thank you so much for the #WhiskeyRocks giveaway.

My spring recommendation would be The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss. Whata wonderful series.

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Booksnchill
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Just a reminder of this giveaway- post a Spring Book recommendation and #WhiskeyRocks and tag me- 3 sets of books- non-US folks are welcome as well. Thanks for the Love, Litsy!!!💖💖💖💖💖

erzascarletbookgasm Congrats! And thanks for the giveaway. 6y
kamoorephoto What!! There‘s a whiskey giveaway? The dog and the drink together?!!! 6y
Booksnchill @kamoorephoto I‘ll send the rocks, you must supply your own Whiskey🤣🥃📚🐾 6y
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Bostonmomx2 Congrats on your milestone!! 6y
Bklover Congratulations!🎉 6y
robinb Congratulations!! Woohoo!!! 🎉🎉🎉 6y
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Wbabdullah
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1. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
2. Renee Watson
3. Sophia‘s Journal by Najiyah Maxfield
4. Sabaa Tahir‘s Ember in the Ashes series
5. The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron
6. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
7. The Chemist by Stephanie Meyer

#7goodthings ❤️😍

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swatreads
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1. Kafka on The Shore
2. Haruki Murakami
3. And Then There Were None
4. None this year😐
5. Fantastic beasts and where to find them
6. Turtles all the way down
7. Simon vs the homosapiens agenda (also a few more!)
#7GoodThings

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Ingerella
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#7GoodThings
1. Dark Matter
2. Blake Crouch
3. When Breath Becomes Air
4. Red Rising Series (this is actually from 2016 but was the last series I read. I loved, loved, loved it!)
5. The Last One
6.The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
7. The Underground Railroad

I suspect I'll be adding lots to my TBR stack as other people post their #7GoodThings

ElishaLovesBooks Red Rising series is so awesome! I also loved all of them! 6y
Ingerella @ElishaLovesBooks, every one is great! The first book of his next series, Iron Gold, is coming out on January 16th! I can't wait!! 6y
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Cortg
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1. Killers of the Flower Moon
2. Jonathan Tropper
3. Americanah
4. March: Book One, Book Two And Book Three
5. The Mothers
6. Born a Crime
7. Long Way Down
#7GoodThings

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Shawna
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1. Hag-Seed
2. Phoebe Robinson
3. Nimona
4. Saga
5. The Nest
6. Norse Mythology
7. Behind Her Eyes

#7GoodThings

britt_brooke Saga 💚 6y
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MamaGina
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1. The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker
2. Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
3. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (All 800+ pages!)
4. The Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths (All 9 of them!)
5. The Muse by Jessie Burton
6. Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
7. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

#7GoodThings

🤓📚💚

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BookFreakOut
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1. Uprooted by Naomi Novak
2. V.E. Schwab she is LEGEND
3. A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
4. The Bear and the Nightingale, The Girl in the Tower (1 & 2 of the Winternight trilogy, also contenders for favorites but didn‘t want to duplicate)
5. Nyxia has a pretty sweet cover
6. Little Fires Everywhere
7. Every Heart a Doorway

#7GoodThings that could easily be 70 times 7 good book things

BillBlume I gotta try V.E. Schwab at some point in 2018. I keep seeing so many positive things about her books. 6y
BookFreakOut @BillBlume I‘d recommend starting with A Darker Shade of Magic or Vicious, I liked her YA duology pretty well but prefer her adult work. 6y
BillBlume @BookFreakOut I was very close to putting A Darker Shade of Magic in my 2018 Eclectic Readers Mad Libs Reading Challenge. Have a feeling I‘ll be reading it shortly after that next year. Thanks! #ERMadLibs 6y
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ptkpepe98
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Again...not the book, but the box from @Lwiesman for #SummerSantaGoesPostal. This photo is a close-up of wrapped goodies. The blue and orange paper was reversible! How neat is that? Two rolls in one! Great box to open on a dreary day.

@BookishMarginalia

Lwiesman Yea!!! 7y
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