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...allegiances of its author, Stéphane Reynaud, a self-taught chef who was born into the meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature of it, opening the book with a chapter titled "Pig-Killing Time at Saint-Agrève" (his mountain hometown in the Ardèche region of France) that is a frank, celebratory portrayal of the "taking apart and devouring...
...Harvard hematologist Jerome Groopman, who is a friend of the child's parents, the missed diagnosis was more than just a cautionary tale. It was the start of an investigative journey. "People talk about technical errors in medicine, but no one talks about thinking errors," he explains in an interview. "I realized I had no framework for understanding these kinds of problems...
...ought to be engaging in more expansive, open, and unchecked dialogue; women, and men also, must begin to consider the infinite number of lifestyles, professions, and personal pursuits that can define a woman’s life. Of course, the journey we are taking to establish our identities as adult women must be fulfilling, otherwise we run the risk of “getting there” and finding ourselves disillusioned...
...Writing on the other side of that journey, when you’re 28, 29, has been a great experience,” she says. “I feel now like what I felt like when I graduated from college. There are things that interest me, but I’m not sure how they’re going to take form...
...Ashoke Ganguli, whose train journey through the Indian countryside begins the film “The Namesake,” Russian writer Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat” radically changes his life. Because of Gogol, Ganguli moves to the United States and embarks on a journey he could not otherwise have imagined. He even nicknames his Indian-American son after the author, giving the movie he theme behind its title.Actor Kal Penn, who plays Gogol, also credits a certain work of art with inspiring a radical career change. The work...