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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Inconsistently Great

23-Oct-07

When my grandmother got well into her eighties and nineties, you couldn’t always be sure what the next plate of lasagna might bring: too much oil, too much salt? A mystery ingredient from the brillo box? Even though her better days of cooking were behind her, each meal left her unforgettable stamp of flavor and […]

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A Chilean in New York

03-Oct-07

If you have someone to talk with go to Grand Central Terminal. Tucked away in a corner of the Biltmore Room near tracks 41 and 42, a young company called StoryCorps have a slick-looking recording booth open to the public (by appointment). StoryCorps facilitates oral history documentation, that is, they want people to record their […]

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