Getting Ready for a Book Launch: My Latest Novel

Getting Ready for a Book Launch: My Latest Novel

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I’m getting ready for the book launch of my latest novel. Yes, I’ve finished it: my latest book, The Shade Under the Mango Tree. I started it more than two years ago but, in the middle of writing it, my … Continued

Cooking As High Art, Eating As Sensuous Experience And Food in Fiction

Cooking As High Art, Eating As Sensuous Experience And Food in Fiction

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In the film Babette’s Feast, a highly-gifted chef schooled in cooking as high art escapes war-torn Paris. She finds herself living in gentle servitude to two good and pious  but dour, nearly  joyless, sisters. With no inkling who Babette is, … Continued