A Bit of Relief: 'Soup Is Soup'

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🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Ali Jaffe and her grandmother Roslyn are self-quarantining 1,200 miles apart. Lately, they’ve been connecting — and coping — by cooking together over FaceTime. Ali is learning the recipes her grandmother cooked for her own children in the 1960s, a period when she had limited time and resources. Today, we listen in as they make matzo ball soup.

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0:25.6	Okay, did this work?
0:32.6	I can hear you.
0:35.6	Hi, I'm Ali Jaffee, I'm 28 and I'm a contributing writer for The New York Times.
0:42.6	I'm Roslyn Jaffee, I'm 91, I'm Alexander's grandmother, what else would you like to know?
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