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    Perfect Persimmon Pudding

    Jul 14, 2020 3 minutes
    BY ASHLEY CAPPS
    PHOTOS BY NICOLE MCCONVILLE

    our world is small. While growing up, it’s easy to assume everyone eats the same things as you. I remember telling friends in school about persimmon pudding. Very few of them knew of persimmons, let alone this pudding as a dessert. As I have moved around and lived in different places, I gradually met folks that knew all about persimmon pudding. Their stories consistently involved an old-timer, a grandmother, a man down the street that

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