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you’ll find a diversity of dishes which exemplify the Eastern European culinary DNA

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Blue Lard is a stylistically acrobatic book

Days in the Caucasus by Banine architecture you’ll find a diversity ofWe all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood of growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early twentieth century, caught between East and West, tradition and modernity. Banine remembers her luxurious home, with endless feasts of sweets and fruit; her beloved, flaxen haired German governess; her imperious,