But if the alternative in your busy life is just grabbing the closest bottle at the grocery store (the horror), well then, you need to join a club.

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Michael Anton's quiet life amid the tinned peas, soap and cereals of his mother's grocery store in Baltimore's Polish neighbourhood is tossed into the air by the whirlwind arrival of the pretty, vibrant, red-coated Pauline Barclay.

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And we just found all these vegetables at the grocery store and simply added black-eyed peas, and it brings them to life, it creates an other-worldly creature, and we have a whole chapter on it in the book.

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