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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prelude: The Craving | |
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| The Fried Egg and I | |
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| A Peanut Butter Kid in a Velveeta Wasteland | |
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| Recipe: Almost Like Mom's Macaroni and Cheese | |
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| About Sex and Me | |
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| Slow Death by Mayonnaise | |
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| Recipe: Blueberry Pie with Orange-Nut Crust | |
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| Something Borrowed, Something Blue | |
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| Recipe: My Ex-Sister-in-Law's Orange Pour Cake | |
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| Innocents Abroad | |
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| Recipe: Raw tomato sauce for Pasta | |
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| Comfort Me with Chocolate Mousse | |
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| How I Became Henri Soule's Darling | |
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| When Craig Claiborne Was God and King | |
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| The Insatiable Critic | |
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| Recipe: Plum Rum Conserve | |
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| Planting the Seeds of Sensuality | |
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| Bite: A New York Restaurant Strategy | |
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| Ma Vie Avec Le Grape Nut | |
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| Recipe: Danish Meat Loaf | |
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| Men I Just Couldn't Resist | |
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| Recipe: Infidelity Soup with Turkey and Winter Vegetables | |
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| The Woman Who Gave Me France on a Plate | |
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| Can This Be Love, or Is It an Intoxication of Butter? | |
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| Recipe: Chocolate Wickedness | |
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| A Gastromaniacal Interlude | |
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| Haute Afloat | |
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| Under Covers | |
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| Train Games | |
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| Recipe: The Morning-After Orange Fruit Soup | |
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| The Scent of a Man | |
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| The Yo-yo Unwinds | |
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| It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Kaufman | |
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| Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen | |
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| Getting to Know Craig | |
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| Recipe: Mushroom Strudel | |
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| I Lost It at the Baths | |
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| Drowning my Sorrows in Chilled Burgundy | |
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| Of James Beard and Encounters with Goddesses | |
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| Splendor in the Foie Gras | |
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| Swimming in Bordeaux | |
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| How They Ate in Pompeii | |
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| Blue Skies and Candy, Too | |
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| Recipe: Scallops with Salsa Cruda and Gremolata | |
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| Life Is a Cabernet | |
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| Am I Blue? | |
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| The Prince of Porn and the Junk-Food Queen | |
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| Skin Flick | |
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| What I Learned on Spring Break | |
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| A Wine Romance This Is | |
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| Recipe: Jean Troisgros's Figs Candy Blue | |
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| It's Not Easy Being Greene | |
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| Cuisines from Three Marriages | |
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| Bonfire of the Foodies | |
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| On Mountain Time | |
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| Recipe: Juliette's Grandma's Fruit Crumble | |
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| Dining on the Lip of the Volcano | |
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| Le Cirque: Having My Cake and Eating it, Too | |
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| And to Think That I Saw It on Wooster Street | |
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| Memories of Maguy and Gilbert LeCoze | |
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| My Dinners with Andre | |
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| The Day the Music Died | |
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| Kiss Kiss Before Dinner | |
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| Eating Humble Pie | |
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| Recipe: Corn Soup with Sauteed Scallops and Bacon | |
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| Aftermath: No Mere Truffle | |
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| Index | |