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WHY ITALIANS LOVE TO TALK ABOUT FOOD. By Elena Kostioukovitch, translated by Anne Milano Appel. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35.) Umberto Eco's translator shares cultural, historical and sociopolitical wisdom in this charming gastronomic survey of the food of her adopted country.
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