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  1. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?
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  2. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.
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  3. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    A culinary triumph: the ingenious use of food as an offensive weapon.
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  4. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.
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  5. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his.
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  6. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.
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  7. James Hamilton-Paterson _ Cooking with Fernet Branca

    Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts."
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