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Not Everything is about Food History

Not Everything is about Food History

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Apr 10, 2022
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I didn’t have a published book until I was 53. Since then, my work’s appeared in over forty books—all non-fiction and mostly about food history. Despite knowing that no one would ever consider me to be a “real writer” until I did something more respectably “literary,” I never wrote fiction.

Then, about five years ago—while recuperating from back surgery—…

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