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Alice, let's eat (1978)
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Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.
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Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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December 5, 1935
(age 89)
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