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Strawberries taste good

THE rebuke ‘Your eyes were bigger than your stomach’ will have been shamingly obvious to all of us at some point. I recently experienced it more or less in reverse. My eyes initially reacted to by Jean Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) with distaste, which I then realised was triggered by my stomach—I can no longer eat strawberries, even wild ones, as they are a gout trigger. When I looked at the 15in by 19in still life

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