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Cooking the Books Episodes Available now
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Much Depends on Dinner
Canadian Margaret Visser whose most famous book on food doesn't contain a single recipe
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A Flavour of Diplomacy
Cook and writer Alan Davidson who dedicated his culinary life to fish
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The Philosopher of Taste
Elizabeth David helped revitalise home cooking in Britain
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A Pinch of Candor From Southern California
Food writer MFK Fisher who invented the theory of gastro-planetary conjunction
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Brave New World
The 1930s Italian writer FT Marinetti who dined and argued his way across Europe
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The Envoy of Belley
The French 18th Century magistrate diner and writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin