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The gold in a notebook

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Aug 12, 2024
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Later this week on Cooking the Books, The Guardian’s New Vegan columnist, Meera Sodha tells us how after a serious breakdown, it was her gentle scribbles in a series of orange notebooks that finally restored her spirit and got her cooking again. After three years of burnout, the recipes she wrote there would become the basis for her latest book, Dinner.

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