According to the Cook book, the sources of the foreign secretary's own feud with Mr Brown are many and various.

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They employ them as an amateur chef employs a cook book, believing the recipes will work without understanding why.

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The book recounts four Cook It Raw gatherings in Denmark, Japan, Italy and Finland in lush photography, email exchanges, recipe descriptions and entertaining essays by Jeffrey Steingarten, Anthony Bourdain and others.

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The duchess landed the job after an appearance on American Television earlier in the year when she was promoting her own cook book - but wryly admitted that she couldn't actually cook.

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