Child's play

Wednesday, August 14, 2002

It was an ordinary day in 1968. I turned on the little black-and-white television set to watch my favorite show. The program's host, in her unmistakable voice ("a voice that could make an aspic shimmy," it's been called), was showing how to make a French chocolate, rum, and almond cake called Queen of Sheba.

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