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In her new book, But Mama Always Set Vodka in Her Sangria!, Julia Reed, a grasp of the-art of eating, drinking, and making merry, takes the audience on culinary activities in locations as far-flung as Kabul, Afghanistan and as near to home as her local Mississippi Delta and Florida’s Gulf Coast. Along the way in which, Reed finds an ideal Pimm’s Royale in the Paris Ritz, devours tasty chuletons in Madrid, and accumulates guidelines from completed hostesses varying from Jim Buckley to Pearl Bailey and, obviously, her own mom. Reed writes concerning the bounty—and the burden—of a garden in large summer, throws soups in the English country, and gives C.Z. Guest’s formula for a particularly zingy bullshot. She provides it-up from the gold dish and knows the need of the powerful vacation strike full, but she's not resistant to the somewhat less processed necklaces of the mixer full of iced mango daiquiris or perhaps a trash can full of Yucca Flats.