Teri L.

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Teri L.

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Teri’s favorite books

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

1491 by Charles C. Mann

A Start in Life by Anita Brookner

Serve It Forth by M.F.K. Fisher

Eating In America by Waverley Root

The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill

When French Women Cook by Madeleine Kamman

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Teri’s Bookshelves

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food-nutrition‎ (167)
france‎ (144)
environment‎ (94)

midwest-chicago-ohio‎ (62)
women-rights-history‎ (47)
women-bio-auto-mem‎ (46)
economics-finance‎ (35)

us-presidents-history‎ (26)

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Enlightenment Now...

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)

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Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat―and the American Revolution―Transformed Britain

by Danielle S. Allen

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The Book of Tofu

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The Book of Tofu

by William Shurtleff

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Teri’s Quotes

Leo Tolstoy

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.”
― Abraham Heschel

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The Anatomy of Dessert by Edward Bunyard

Edible Memory by Jennifer A. Jordan

Books about Food

566 books — 214 voters

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

My Life in France by Julia Child

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Food-Related Non-Fiction

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Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Travel, and food-history

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