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Fall Fare:

Beef & Pepper Stroganoff, Braised Fennel with Brie, Green Beans in Blue Cheese Sauce, Puffed Indian Bread

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"I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny finally and ultimately sated -- but enough about the pork."

-- Roseanne Barr (American comedian. 3 November 1952 -)

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