![]() ![]() Later, after her divorce, she discovers she's gluten-intolerant when "it took about twenty-four hours to return to normal after one crumb of gluten." She avoids malt, barley, rye, oats, spelt, couscous, bulgur, and sprouted wheat she steers clear of any food fried in oil used to fry wheat-containing food. As she feasted on steak frites, artichokes, poached eggs, steak tartare, oysters, beef bourguignon, blini and caviar.all washed down with rustic red wine, she fell in love with Jon. The oldest daughter of a Marxist lawyer and. Her boyfriend, then husband, taught her how to enjoy food without guilt, remorse, or puritanism. Novelist Christensen (The Great Man) describes her 1970s upbringing in Arizona in this unpretentious memoir. I began to pay closer attention to what I ate.as something to savor when it was good." She writes: "That zucchini woke me up to the idea that food had possibilities and qualities that I had not suspected. Mhotte where she is working as an au pair. Then there’s the sublime, velvety zucchini she eats in the apartment above the kitchen at Château de La Strips she’s eating in Berkeley when she witnesses her father brutally beating her mother. ![]() ![]() First, there are the soft-boiled egg and pieces of buttered toast ![]()
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