by Patience Gray
Recommended by Samin Nosrat
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Hobbies, Most Recommended Books, and Food.
This book is perhaps the jewel in Prospect?s crown. Within a few months of its first appearance in 1986 it was hailed as a modern classic. Fiona MacCarthy wrote in The Times that, ?the book is a large and grandiose life history, a passionate narrative of extremes of experience.? Jeremy Round called Patience Gray ?the high priestess of cooking?, who...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Hobbies, Most Recommended Books, and Food.
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Samin Nosrat
Iranian-American chef and food writer
“The first cookbook I ever saw, let alone read, that strayed from the usual format.”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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