Dinner: A Love Story

Dinner: A Love Story

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Dinner: A Love Story
Dinner: A Love Story
Food and Memory

Food and Memory

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Sep 19, 2016
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Remember that scene in Ratatouille when the ruthless restaurant critic Anton Ego takes a bite of Remi's ratatouille and is instantly whooshed back to his mother's country kitchen? His normally severe face melts into a kind of euphoria, and he drops his pen in the shock of recognition, in the transportive power of food. (As if to say, the feeling he gets…

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