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    Passed Down

    May 18, 2021 3 minutes
    BY WHITNEY DURRWACHTER
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY JIM BATHIE
    FOOD STYLING BY VANESSA ROCCHIO
    STYLING BY MARY BETH JONES

    MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMA, Pauline Puckett, loved people through food in ways big and small. From taking meals to sick neighbors during the 1918 influenza pandemic to cooking and baking for her family, she made sure the people in her life felt cared for and well fed.

    My grandma recently shared the family recipe book with me, which is

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