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Allen Ginsberg: Aloo Gobi
When I was a kid, I hated lamb. Well, let me clarify: My mother hated lamb, so I hated lamb. I had never actually tasted it, since it was barred from our home, but that was entirely irrelevant to my...
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Franz Kafka: Potato Mushroom Soup
Another year, another fad diet. Every January, we’re told to go Paleo, go South Beach, go Atkins. It’s a culinary labyrinth that has existed for centuries—and Franz Kafka was an early captive. Kafka...
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Alexandre Dumas: Purple Potato Salad with Spring Onion Pesto
After you decide you want to be a writer, the problem becomes what to write about. Every subject seems to come with a prepackaged identity: the introspective memoirist, the philosophizing critic. And...
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Gustave Flaubert and George Sand: Potato and Gruyère Galette
When asked “What famous writer would you invite to a dinner party?” famous wits like Oscar Wilde or Mark Twain definitely come to mind. But even the fictional dinner cast of my dreams pales in...
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