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...that she is considered an excellent cook by her good friends ("and anyone who thinks I'm an excellent cook is a good friend"). Writer Marshall Burchard grew up in a food-conscious home in Boston; his father liked to re-create for his family meals he had eaten in European restaurants. While working on the cover, Burchard and his wife tried more than 50 recipes, many from Julia's cookbook, and "raised our food budget...
...keep it down with trapping. It has eaten my beans and peas and has stripped the bark and branches off 50 young trees. It can stand up on its hind feet and reach more than two feet into the air to snap off small limbs." The voracious creature that stirred the Australian orchardist to complain to the Maitland Pastures Protection Board seemed fearsome indeed. But it was easily identified. After having been nearly down and out Down Under, the wild rabbit is staging an ominous and increasingly destructive comeback...
...some other kin-was always there to look after the fighting. The best of the lot of left-handed royalty was the Due de Vendome, who "at the age of 54 looked like an old, fat, dirty, diseased woman" and was syphilitic to boot ("his nose quite eaten away"), though on the battlefield he raged like a lion...
...probably safe to say that not very many people list dogsled driving as a hobby. No doubt only a few more can say that, while traveling by other means, they have been forced to drive off the road to avoid a moose and have had their leather two-suiter eaten by Eskimos. These very special experiences belong to Ed Ogle, an Indiana-born, New Orleans-trained newsman who for the past nine years has been our bureau chief in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and who traveled some 10,000 miles over his sprawling territory to do the major reporting for this...
...book's impatient thesis is that man ignorantly keeps trying to make a monkey out of the poor beast. "Apes," the Morrises write, "have been eaten, worshipped, hunted, hated, loved, mocked, feared, persecuted, protected, shot into space, featured on television, infected with syphilis and trained to collect flowers...