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French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.
French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- Michael Pollan
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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