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Legal Food for Thought<\/strong><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A Savory Stew of Stimulating Essays Laced with Law<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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To compare a book to food is nothing new. \u201cSome books are to be tasted,\u201d Francis Bacon famously wrote around 1600, \u201cothers to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.\u201d In the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, \u201cI cannot remember the books I\u2019ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.\u201d Maya Corrigan, our contemporary author of mysteries involving food, says, \u201cYou are what you eat and read.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And a book can also be food for thought, as it nourishes our minds and souls, a meaningful literary equivalent of a good meal, consumed but not quickly forgotten. It is, then, not going too far out on a limb to hope that readers will think of the essays in this book as food for thought, snacks or a meal for the reader, and a special kind of meal at that\u2014one warranting serious consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book resembles what foodies call an olio, a rich, thick, spicy Spanish dish or stew with a variety of ingredients. Figuratively speaking, olio means a medley or miscellaneous collection of things, a hodgepodge, mixture, or assortment. This book is a figurative olio, a harvest, a curated collection of essays, but with a special, idiosyncratic spice. Because they are an olio or hodgepodge, the essays may sometimes seem at first glance to lack an overall theme, thesis, or connecting thread, but that would be a misperception. Throughout the essays runs a recurring idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the essays having been the product of one mind over several years, they have another unifying theme in that they all relate in some way to law. They cover a wide range of topics, from ways to improve our democracy, to whether law can be practiced creatively, to lawyers as comic book superheroes, and much else besides. But don\u2019t worry; it is not a law book, and I tried very hard not to make it dull. They are one man\u2019s personal views, a practicing lawyer\u2019s spare time ruminations, on many various topics in some fashion connected, however loosely, to law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Legal Food for Thought A Savory Stew of Stimulating Essays Laced with Law To compare a book to food is nothing new. \u201cSome books are to be tasted,\u201d Francis Bacon famously wrote around 1600, \u201cothers to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.\u201d In the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, \u201cI … <\/p>\n

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