"Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice."

Skill, Cooking, Practice, Patience, Presence

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"Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice."

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"A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals."

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