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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The Devil Playeth the Cook
A womper-upper.
"The Italian by-word, the woman is the fire, the man is the roast meate, in commeth the devile, and he playeth the
cooke
."
William Fulbrecke,
The pandectes of the law of nations
(1602).
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