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🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 📅 2014 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780393240832

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2015 James Beard Award Nominee: Writing and Literature category Stanford University linguist and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky dives into the hidden history of food.

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