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Excerpt:
“If you’re after an impressive dessert, choux pastry is the way to go. Bring this to the table and you’ll be met with a flood of “oohs” and “aahs”.”
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Excerpt:
“Perhaps the best perk of being friends with me is that sometimes I’ll spot something that’s dirty in your kitchen and I’ll offer to take it home with me and clean it. I’ll do the work, and I’ll return it.”
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Trapped in the Ivory Basement
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Excerpt:
“For a few years before the pandemic, Tanya d’Anger held a teaching job that required her to work more or less every hour she was awake, from 6:00 in the morning to 11:00 at night.”
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Excerpt:
“Over the last five years, Douglas Wolk has pulled off a feat that few others have attempted, let alone completed: he read every Marvel comic book published since 1961, which adds up to around 27,000 issues, or 540,000 pages.”
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Excerpt:
“Since I was a kid, the kitchen’s always had an allure, and baking and cooking has played a massive part in my life. Excuse the bad pun but, for some reason, cooking lights an intense flame within me. It’s the creativity of transforming basic ingredients into something exciting.”
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Excerpt:
“During the early part of the war in Afghanistan, US forces were suffering under extreme cold weather conditions; poorly served by their issued clothing systems. Enter the PCU.”
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Excerpt:
“Visions of “lost cities” in the jungle have consumed western imaginations since Europeans first visited the tropics of Asia, Africa and the Americas.”
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Excerpt:
“The graphic novel Shortcomings is a cherished work of contemporary Asian American storytelling, but the main character, Ben Tanaka, would surely roll his eyes, cross his arms, and heave a deep sigh of exasperation over anything described in such precious terms. He’s over all that.”
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