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November 24, 2009

I Know How to Cook

Phaidon adds a impressive French tome to their big fat cookbook series. What The Silver Spoon is to the home cooks of Italy, I Know How to Cook -- a bestseller since its first publication in 1932 -- is to the home cooks of France. More than 1,400 recipes on nearly 1,000 pages

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