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TIL that author Len Deighton is also an expert chef and artist. In the 1960s his "cookstrips", simple recipes in cartoon form, appeared in newspapers. When they were collected in books, Deighton in 1965 became a best-selling author of spy novels and cookbooks at the same time.

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