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December 12, 2011

Making ‘old country’ latkes on this side of the Atlantic

My grandparents really knew how to cook. It seems to me that everyone born in the \”old country\” — in this case Transylvania — was born with built-in cooking intuition. Somehow they could create the most scrumptious meals using no fancy equipment, or even measuring spoons.

Newt’s bombshell

\”The Palestinian people does not exist,” exclaimed the politician. The audacity of the statement shocked me, because it came from the mouth of Zahir Muhsein, a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization executive committee, in a 1977 interview with a Dutch newspaper.

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