Finding the fundamentals of culture

Memoir

Finding the fundamentals of culture

On forging meaning through food

Matthew Evans

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Published 20221101
ISBN: 978-1-922212-74-0
Extent: 264pp
Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

THE SURGEON PEERS at my scan, then looks up at me.

‘I can fix that,’ he says, pointing two fingers at my throat. ‘We cut a seven-centimetre hole in the front of your neck, then push your windpipe out of the way,’ he says as he gestures left with his fingers. ‘We push your oesophagus the other way,’ and again the two fingers pointed at my Adam’s apple waggle. ‘Then we go in deep.’

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