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I found the book you mentioned - A Dinner of Herbs by John Verney. Looks good. Somewhat confusingly there is another book called Dinner of Herbs by Carla Grissman which is also a travelogue describing close contact with 'peasants', but this time in Anatolia in the 60s. It also looks good. (There's even another book with the same title, but it's a fiction novel by Catherine Cookson). Edit: I've just found that the tit…
Is that a fancy “i'd rather eat crumbs with bums than steaks with snakes”?
i might be inclined to argue that
the number of things fancier than
two pairs of contextual rhymes
which present a clear principle
of morality in one simple sentence
could be infinitesimal.