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Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.
Laura Shapiro Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
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Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

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