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I was taught how to tie up the loin with a butcher's looping knot and was so excited by the discovery that I went home and practiced. I told Elisa about my achievement. __ tied up everything,_ I said. __ leg of lamb, some utensils, a chair. My wife came home, and I tied up her too._ Elisa shook her head. __et a life,_ she said and returned to her task.
Bill Buford Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
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I was taught how to tie up the loin with a butcher's looping knot and was so excited by the discovery that I went home and practiced. I told Elisa about my achievement. __ tied up everything,_ I said. __ leg of lamb, some utensils, a chair. My wife came home, and I tied up her too._ Elisa shook her head. __et a life,_ she said and returned to her task.
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

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