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Peter Mayle started the trend with A Year in Province. More recent time-bound books include Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life; Julie Powell’s My Year of Cooking Dangerously, and William Alexander’s 52 Loaves.
Maybe I spend too much time on the New Jersey Turnpike, but it occurred to me while driving home from my parents’ house in the southern part of the state that I might have a “year-of” book in me too. It’s called My Year of Eating Heavy Eastern European Cooking Copiously.
