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This is such a great cooking text and the recipes were all fantastic! I made the herbed yogurt and Persian beet yogurt and they were amazing! Friends made the apple pie, granola, Tuscan bean soup, Persian rice with favas, butternut squash and Brussels Sprouts in Agrodolce, Cacio e pepe, Kuku Sabzi, garlicky green beans and Kufte Kebabs - all amazing!

By trying to fit in, I was strengthening the culture that made me feel like I didn’t fit in.

Seems I’m the best of myself everywhere in the world except North Korea and in line at the Starbucks at fourteenth and sixth in Manhattan. P 258

Disc 7, chp 23 Very similar to devil in the white city

"Of all the clothing that we dump off on charities' doorsteps, less than 20% gets sold through their thrift stores. About half of it doesn't even get a shot at the stores, going straight into the post consumer waste stream and on to [textile recycling facilities]."