By Kate Christensen

An award-winning novelist’s account of the unforeseen achievement she present in New England, dwelling, loving, cooking, and consuming “at the tip of the world.”

In this exuberant, unabashedly gourmand-esque follow-up to Blue Plate distinct, Christensen celebrates the land, foodstuff, and folks of Maine. The nation turned her domestic after she and her associate, Brendan, made up our minds to depart a loved New Hampshire farmhouse owned by means of the Fitzgerald family members and purchase a home in their personal. They settled within the quietly cosmopolitan urban of Portland, the place they found eating places that, of their excellence and variety, rivaled these in greater towns like big apple. As she received to grasp real Mainers, Christensen additionally stumbled on herself appreciating their unpretentiousness and rugged individualism, and she or he prominent their “quiet paintings ethic…that is by some means by no means puritanical or self-righteous, in addition to the shortcoming of judgment, the mind-your-own-business angle, and the fierce satisfaction of place.”

This used to be very true the place meals was once involved. regardless of the state’s brief turning out to be seasons and lengthy winters, Mainers took satisfaction in protecting their food—whether from the land or sea—local and in season. Christensen’s curiosity in her new domestic and, specifically, its cooking traditions led her to discover Maine background and study the private tales of the cooks, fishermen, hunters, and farmers who wrested lots from the rocky soil and fierce ocean. Her enthusiasm for her followed domestic and its ethos of sustainability is as ample because the lovingly crafted descriptions of gorgeous landscapes and mouthwatering meals—the recipes for which Christensen contains within the book—she and her companion ready jointly of their kitchen. The heartbreak and private drama that characterised Blue Plate distinctive is absent during this publication. Christensen is consuming good, in love, and radiating the “quiet inner day-by-day pleasure of residing in a tradition in line with authenticity and integrity.”

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Is he one of the notables? UNKNOWN MAN: CADI: No. you’re in charge of directing his affairs? UNKNOWN MAN: CADI: That’s so. Then he’s an employee. UNKNOWN MAN: CADI: They claim he has. They claim he has a trade but he does not make anything. UNKNOWN MAN: CADI: He makes nothing. No. Has he influence? qxd:Tawfiq_Hakim 52 4/13/08 4:12 PM Page 52 The Sultan’s Dilemma UNKNOWN MAN: Yes, CADI: on his acquaintances. Has he many acquaintances? UNKNOWN MAN: Yes—many. CADI [thinking in silence as he passes his fingers through his beard]: Yes.

WINE MERCHANT forward. qxd:Tawfiq_Hakim 4/13/08 4:12 PM Page 45 Act Two SLAVE TRADER: VIZIER: Silence! Silence! Honorable people! You are today present at a great and unique occa- sion, one of the most important in our history: a glorious Sultan asks for his freedom and has recourse to his people instead of to his sword—that sharp and mighty sword by which he was victorious in battles against the Mongols and with which he could also have been victorious in gaining his freedom and liberating himself from slavery.

Thirty! At a sum of thirty! Thirty thousand dinars! [whispering]: Thirty thousand dinars to be thrown into the sea! What a madman! [shouting at the top of his voice]: Thirty thousand dinars! SLAVE TRADER Thirty! Any better bid? No one? No one bids more than thirty thousand dinars? Is this all I’m offered as a price for our great Sultan? SULTAN VIZIER: [to the VIZIER]: So this is the height of noble, patriotic, appreciation! Your Majesty, those present bidding here are mostly the miserly mer- chants and well-to-do, those whose nature is niggardly, whose one desire is profit, and who begrudge spending money for the sake of a lofty purpose.

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