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Everything Barbra Streisand Eats in Her 970-Page Memoir
From peas with sugar to burgers with Brando to guggle-muggle.
Though Streisand’s 970-page tome more than covers her greatest hits — Funny Girl and Yentl, her 50 studio albums, her strained relationship with her mother, and how much she wanted to fuck Marlon Brando (but then declined to do so when presented with several opportunities) — she spills more ink on the various food choices she made over the course of her 50-plus-year career than on absolutely anything else. Appetizer of hearts of palm, then roast duckling, and tapioca for dessert, on a first date with Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, at Casa Brasil on the Upper East Side, where there were no printed menus and only two seatings each evening, so you had to make reservations. “Something happened in Russia, and now we had to worry about eating cheese from France and apples from Oregon, because we were all downwind … Was this the beginning of the end of the world?” Ultimately this obsession with nuclear disarmament got Barbra back onstage singing live for the first time in 20 years to support the election of Democrats.
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