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This is Milk Street Radio from PRX. I'm your host, Christopher Kimball. Today I'm chatting with

caterer to the stars Mary Giuliani. Over the last 15 years, she'd become the hot caterer for the

worlds of art, fashion, and entertainment. But growing up, she had different ambitions. She dreamed

of being a famous actress and of being Jewish. Well, we were so Italian. We couldn't have been

more Italian if we tried. But I grew up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. So all I really wanted to be was

like my friends, I wanted to be Jewish. So yes, I went to Hebrew school electively. I gave myself

my very own bat mitzvah in my house by myself. And I applied to the Shabaskoi program to push

the elevators for the Orthodox Jews at the hospital on Saturdays.

Also coming up, we dig into soup of bistou from Provence and explain how to make your pasta water start here.

But first reporter Otis Gray recounts his trip to a senior citizen lunch in Burlington, Vermont,

that brings together Bhutanese refugees and New England old timers.

The lunch is hosted by a program called New Farms for New Americans.

Otis, how are you?

I'm fantastic.

You know, Vermont's an interesting place, but I don't think of it sort of on the cutting edge of other cultures, different foods.

But new farms for new Americans is quite the opposite.

That's true.

The concept for new farms for new Americans is there are refugees that are getting resettled into Vermont.

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