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in Saint Paul, MN, The United States

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Steve Hoffman is a Minnesota tax preparer and food writer. His writing has won multiple national awards, including the 2019 James Beard M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. He has been published in Food & Wine, The Washington Post, and The Minneapolis Star Tribune, among others. He shares one acre on Turtle Lake, in Shoreview, Minnesota, with his wife, Mary Jo, their elderly and entitled puggle, and roughly 80,000 honeybees.

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A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

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Poetics of Relation

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Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (The University Center for Human Values Series Book 35)

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The Summer Book

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“Behind me, Eva kneaded dough for a fougasse, a Provençal variation on focaccia, slit and shaped like an airy leaf, that she had discovered”
― Steve Hoffman, A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

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“Je ne vois pas de tripes” (I don’t see any intestines),”
― Steve Hoffman, A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

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