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My first job in high school was as an internship for a man who maintained in his house a private academic collection on the history of soy and soy-based foods. My job was to take historical files and type them by hand into a database on an old Gateway desktop. Most of the files I worked on were old recipes from European cooks trying to replicate soy sauce. They didn't know what soy was, though, so most of them were like "put 40 sardines into a fine bucket with a bushel of tomatoes and let them stewe for a fortnight."

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"First dig a pit, in the manner of the Gauls and not in the manner of the Sidonites." Now just imagine hearing that in Julia Child's voice.

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I once went to a sewing workshop held in an antique bookstore dedicated to cookbooks and such, so much stuff like this. Basically heaven

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