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The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters
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The Origins of French Cuisine
There is this idea that French cuisine is sort of like the mother cuisine in the West. And arguably, France did it first. It started articulating the idea that its cuisine was part of its great nationhood and its supremacy. That's also a really important step in creating the whole idea of a national cuisine.
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