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"At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives."

Robert Farrar Capon, American Theologian

Failure, Lies, Woman

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"At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives."

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