Pépin does find some latter-day culinary developments here perplexing, like California's banning of foie gras ("Totally ridiculous"), the fetishizing of organic ingredients ("What's the big deal?") and the larger foraging rage ("This is new?").
For the most part, though, it moves briskly and easily holds your attention, largely through a perverse love story that doesn't suffer for being such an obvious metaphor for the larger battle raging beyond Ajla and Danijel's relationship.
Finally, the oath of honor is a small symptom of a larger battle raging in the heart of B-schools: professionalism.
Now both boys are hospitalized, and each in his own way has become an emblem of a larger battle raging around him.
While Doctorow himself notes, in this book's preface, that "there is no Winesburg here to be mined for its humanity," in his work as a whole there is the feeling of a native ground: the world of shtetl Jews transported to the Bronx and the several generations of their assimilation, and in the larger sense a rage for social justice, or rage at injustice, that comes partly out of that milieu.
Firefighters are battling the large blaze raging in the arrivals hall at Kenya's main airport.
The sexual revolution -- like the youth movement in which it flourished -- was 100percentt adolescent appetite, writ large and raging through the streets.
There is also a large debate raging over the fugitive emissions of shale gas production stimulated by recent papers from Howarth et al. at Cornell.
The Williams fire was one of two large blazes raging in the searing heat of California's late summer, when temperatures of 100 degrees are common.
There are six large fires raging out West, and this year's season is likely to burn 10 million acres of land, more than in any year since 1960, when federal records began to be kept.
But though the arguments over fracking in the Fylde will continue to rage, large numbers of people remain either uninterested or uninformed.
