Blood, Bones & Butter

Gabrielle Hamilton, chef-owner at the celebrated Manhattan restaurant Prune, has written a memoir which eloquently withstands the heat of the many kitchens she has found herself unable to get out of. It is also filled with the flavors of her intimate memories of childhood, family, and travels in France, Greece, and, especially, Italy, making it a satisfying meal for readers of literary as well as culinary interests.

June 20: Today is World Refugee Day, as designated by the United Nations in 2001. According to the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the modern refugee problem should not be attributed to wars and despots but to a civilization that…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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