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If Loving Food is Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be Right

A midlife meditation on one of life's greatest pleasures

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Alison Krupnick
Sep 08, 2023
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Food for Thought

Vibrant woman of a certain age bids adieu to the constraints of working and child-rearing life and prepares to embark on a new life that she hopes will resemble a Viagra commercial: frolicking with a sexy, silver-haired partner, visiting faraway beautiful vistas. Eating exquisite morsels of food while sipping exquisite wine. Wearing beig…

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World-traveling foodie and author of Slice of Midlife -- musings on this unique life stage, with recipes! Author of Ruminations from the Minivan: musings from a world grown large, then small.
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