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IN RECKLESS Appetites, A
Culinary Romance (Burgher

Books), Jacqueline Deval makes -

a“ sumptuous literary feast of
recipes from famous writers
and folds them into a story
about doomed romance.
Pomme, a woman inflamed
with the love of food, plots her
lover’s death and seduction by
haute cuisine. In-between are
curious anecdotes ranging from
‘Balzac's mania for coffee,
Conrad’s distaste for porridge
- (“damn fish glue”) and E.M.
Forster's scathing review of
English train food (“prunes swam
in grey juice like the wrinkled
skulls of old men”). The story is
flimsy, but the historical anec-
-dotes about food are delicious.
“Toronto food writer Cynthia
Wine traces the sociology of eat-
ing in her collection of wide-
ranging articles Eating for A
Living, Food, Sex and Dining
‘Out (Penguin Books). She dis-
cusses the perks and plights of
her job which include tasting
- “corporate food” (free from life- -
‘threatening substances such as. fat
and sugar) and skulking around
dimiy” tit restaurants in silly dis-
guises. ‘-
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dinner sales? Tidbits include
restaurant courtship, tipping tips,
unusual aphrodisiacs (ground
oe beetles?) and food fetishes:.

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and Other Mysteries Solved by
Forensic Science by Canadian
science writer Sylvia Barrett
(Doubleday Canada).

Reading about these miracu-
lous methods of detection avail-
able to police and forensic scien-
tists, you will scarcely believe
criminals could escape conviction
anymore! By analysing the angles
of blood splatters, the life cycle
of maggots found on bodies, the
teeth pattern of bite marks and ,

‘the DNA pattern from the pulp of

a wisdom tooth, experts have
nabbed the culprits of sometimes
gruesome crimes. Not for the
faint of heart.

- On the fictional side of crime,
William Deverell’s Kill All the.

- Lawyers (Random House) is a

must-read. A: lawyer who success-
fully defends an obviously guiity

client ends up dead. Then there is
a second attempt to kill a similar-
ly “successful” lawyer. Deverell

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al Surprises,

‘For a non-fiction take on our |
corrupt justice system try Carsten
Stroud’s Contempt of Court, The

. Betrayal of Justice in Canada

(MacMillan Canada). At times
bitter and sarcastic, Stroud expos-
es the legal hoop-jumping and
semantic hair-splitting that leaves
killers like Charles Ng laughing
all the way to court, Pair it up
with David R. Williams historical
account of six famous Canadian
trials, With Malice Aforcthought,
(Sono Nis Press), Williams details
the complexities of reconstructing
a crime from scant or contradicto-
ry evidence.

For Doggerel-lovers and
dreamers: Mr. “Life is a cabaret,”
Bill Richardson, gets his rhyme
muscles moving with Come Into
My Parlour, Cautionary Verses
and Instructive Tales for the New
Millenitem (Polestar Press).
Beautifully illustrated by Chum
Mcleod, the silly, witty verses
range from a “Cremation of Sam
McGee” parody on the dangers of
snoring to a:lament on noisy con-
cert-goers. The topper is “My
Handbag and 1," in which
Richardson ponders the mysteri-
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purse. |

For the dreamer who wants to
master the art of wishing, turn to
David Greer's delightful White
Horses and Shooting Stars, A
Book of Wishes (Polestar Press).
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you did as a kid, like lifting your |

feet when driving over railroad
tracks, or wishing on rainbows?
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