The cookies were still warm as we ate them, crumb by crumb, sitting on my bed.

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When I was a kid growing up on the Jersey Shore, steamers were abundant and cheap, so we ate them often.

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That evening, he cooked up a big pan of what he preferred to call porcini, with olive oil, pepper, salt, and pancetta, and we ate them with grilled polenta, salad, and red wine, a Barolo.

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We ate them in the shade of a tall chestnut in the town square and drank cold draft beers, then pedaled on to Souillac and the old abbey there, built by returned Crusaders in the style of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, which they had seen on their way to Jerusalem.

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Whilst harmless to the oysters, cholera, typhoid and hepatitis B pathogens were fatal to diners, who ate them, as we continue to do today, raw and alive.

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When we ate the olives, we didn't pop them into our mouths.

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None of them had a client that evening, so dinner started at seven-thirty and we ate slowly.

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