The Birdwoman's Palate Random House / Vintage is now on the street

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The Birdwoman's Palate Random House / Vintage is now on the streetIn this exhilarating culinary novel, a womans road trip through Indonesia becomes a discovery of friendship, self, and other rare delicacies. Aruna is an epidemiologist dedicated to food and avian politics. One is heaven, the other earth. The two passions blend in unexpected ways when Aruna is asked to research a handful of isolated bird flu cases reported across Indonesia. While its put a crimp in her aunts West Java farm, and made her own confit de