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Extra Bites: Skye McAlpine

With love from Venice

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Mar 02, 2023
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On this week’s episode of Cooking the Books, Skye McAlpine takes us to her 17th century Palazzo home in Venice to talk about her new book, A Table Full of Love.

Skye is a Classics scholar with a PhD in Latin love poetry, and in this episode, we talk deeply about what that means to the ancients, and to us now.

From Eros (lust) to philia (friendship), lud…

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