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Maggie: A Short Story by Alice Stride

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There is a woman standing on the street. She has two arms, two legs, the correct number of fingers and toes, knees, elbows, eyes, ears, a nose, teeth and all the bits inbetween. She is looking in a shop window, and her face is full of melancholy. I’ll say that she is plump, with coiffed [...]

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In A Perfect World It Would Be Spiders For Lunch

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Why being irrational saves us from a life of Bush-Tucker Trials  Why Not Eat Insects? Not my question, by the way, but the title of a book. It was a book first published in the 1880s by a man by the name of Vincent M Holt, and it’s not been out of print since. In [...]

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Bill Buckley Is In The Restaurant – Mango Lounge Reviewed

It was pretty and it was light. I’d call it a woman’s dish if I had the courage.

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Heston Blumenthal: The Best Of Berkshire

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Biography-writing is always an eye-opening, perception-confounding experience. Never have I found this to be more true than in my research for my new book about masterchef Heston Blumenthal. The classy man with the common touch, he truly represents the best of Berkshire.

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