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lil1inblue
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“You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.”

#luckyinlove #valentine #mediumraw #anthonybourdain

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 1mo
Eggs Bourdain - gone too soon😔 1mo
lil1inblue @Eggs I miss him! 😭 1mo
lil1inblue @Eggs I miss him! 😭 1mo
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julesG
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We watched the show and had to get the book after trying out four of the recipes. Today we tried the meatloaf roll, which was done about 10min before the postie brought the #BookMail.

TheBookHippie I love her. Her recipes are wonderful! 2mo
julesG @TheBookHippie I really enjoyed the show. Love her attitude towards cooking and ingredients and how to save time. 2mo
TheBookHippie @julesG I‘ve watched both Netflix shows of hers a few times!!! She‘s so zen. Her attitude is a gift! 2mo
Aimeesue Thanks for the post - sounds like just my sort of cookbook! I‘ve just borrowed it via Libby, can‘t wait to page through it! 2mo
Tamra Her show is fun! Yum! 2mo
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RealLifeReading
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Pickpick

This book is a story about power, about food and love, it‘s a complex and sensual and creative. I did find it hard to read though, taking several weeks to finally make my way through it. This book made me hungry with its intense descriptions of food, but it also left me a bit cold, in that I wanted to feel more for the unnamed chef, I wanted to care more, but I didn‘t. So it‘s not quite Pick and not quite So-so

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mabell
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Pickpick

#MtCookbook Week 2
I had the this out all Dec, planning to try different things through the holidays. Ha! The first recipe I tried this week - Cheese Pie with Chestnut Pastry, Brussels Sprouts, & Hazelnuts
Holiday comfort food, the flavors were a bit reminiscent of Thanksgiving. I had my doubts on the all-butter chestnut crust, but it actually had quite a good crisp, tender crumb. It was more of a creamy Brussels sprout & onion, than a cheese pie.

mabell Next year, I‘ll try more! Like - Chocolate, Cardamom, Pistachio Topped Cupcakes or Plum Pudding - flamed! 🧯 2mo
Tamra Ooooooo that looks scrumptious! Everything to love about comfort food. 2mo
janeycanuck That pie looks gorgeous! 2mo
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mabell @Tamra @janeycanuck Thank you! I don‘t know that this will be a repeat recipe, but it was fun! And felt like an accomplishment 🤣 I think the chestnut pastry would make a good quiche crust, now that I think about it. I may have to give that a try! 2mo
Gissy 😋 2mo
batsy Looks delicious! 2mo
mabell @batsy @Gissy It was every bit as rich as it looks, and a unique wintry recipe to try! Though you do have to be in the mood for Brussels sprouts 😂 2mo
Gissy @mabell I like Brussels sprouts, it is something I eat regularly 😋 2mo
TheBookHippie I love Brussels spouts! This looks good. 2mo
mabell @TheBookHippie It was definitely holiday comfort food - rich savory pie! And if you love Brussels sprouts, you‘d enjoy it! 2mo
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Decalino
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Mehso-so

This sounded like my kind of book: in a near future climate change catastrophe, a chef finds work at a rich people safe haven. Unfortunately, the sometimes outlandishly sensual descriptions of fancy foods left me mostly bemused. The depiction of the chef's employer never gelled for me, and the results of the hunt near the end of the book were truly horrifying. Maybe it's because I'd just as soon eat cereal for dinner, but this book wasn't for me.

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janeycanuck
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Pickpick

I found the first part far more engaging than the last bit. It‘s a really interesting concept - and maybe feels like it‘s something that‘ll happen in the not-too-distant future - but it was a little too neatly wrapped up at the end.

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BookishTrish
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Pickpick

There was a lot I loved about this book: the post apocalyptic setting, the effect of worldwide scarcity on the rich, the incredible descriptions of the food. I wasn‘t as keen on the ending - which seemed abrupt and too pat - but I‘d definitely read more by this author. A soft pick.

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DebinHawaii
Bills Food | Bill Granger
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Well, this popped up on my Instagram & made me very sad this morning. Aussie Chef, Bill Granger passed away yesterday at age 54. I have three of his cookbooks in my collection & he seemed like such a lovely person. Gone way too soon. 💙😥

Smrloomis 💕💕💕 3mo
Avanders 😢 3mo
dabbe 😢 3mo
Leftcoastzen So sad. 3mo
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Chelsea.Poole
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Pickpick

Dystopian, food-centric, and apathetic. I enjoy Zhang‘s writing but I didn‘t enjoy being with the main character, a chef who‘s been invited to cook for a billionaire in the mountains of Italy where freezers are stocked full of exotic and extinct species of all sorts and dignitaries/celebrities/wealthy come for dinner parties. I‘d read this for the food descriptions alone, but I would have liked more dystopian details and less pining and whining.

BarbaraBB Still a pick for you and I am glad it is! 3mo
Chelsea.Poole @BarbaraBB I did like it! Reading my review again it seems that I‘m the one doing the whining! 😂 It was very unique and gave me much to contemplate. 3mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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Mehso-so

Bridgerton tea and macarons for this post apocalypse book that centers a chef and food.
The beginning was enthralling and then I just got a bit bored. I don't know if I had ever wished a book was a short story before but was wanting that from this one.
I do think for what she meant to do it was well written and good world building, it was probably a right book but wrong time issue, I just couldn't get myself to pick it up.

ChasingOm I felt the same! 3mo
BarbaraBB Me too. 3mo
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