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  1. Ruth Reichl _ Garlic and Sapphires: The

    I love all these people; they have so much passion. They're a little bit crazy, but they use their craziness for their business. They live right."
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  2. Ruth Reichl _ Garlic and Sapphires: The

    My yogurt was nestled into a bag, waiting to turn into aushak, and all around us were sausages and pastry, lollipops and spices, chicken and cheese. Any world that contained all this, I thought surveying our loot, was a very fine place. I felt reinvigorated, alive, optimistic. The though of getting back to work suddenly seemed like fun.
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  3. Ruth Reichl _ Garlic and Sapphires: The

    While cooking demands your entire attention, it also rewards you with endlessly sensual pleasures... The seductive softness of chocolate beginning to melt from solid to liquid. The tug of sauce against the spoon when it thickens in teh pan, and the lovely lightness of Parmesan drifting from the grater in gossamer flakes. Time slows down in teh kitchen, offering up an entire universe of small satisfactions.
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  4. Ruth Reichl _ Garlic and Sapphires: The

    A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.
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  5. Ruth Reichl _ Garlic and Sapphires: The

    When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.
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