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“Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.” quote by Chris Bohjalian — Download Open image

“Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.”

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“A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee,”

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“The Beatrice that obsessed Dante was a Florentine named Bice di Folco Portinari. Envision this moment (and, in all fairness, I am envisioning it the way Henry Holiday did in his exquisite nineteenth-century painting): Bice is walking beside the Arno River, dressed in white, the fabric clinging to her legs and outlining her slender thighs, and there is Dante. He…

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“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.”

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