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Chicken and Pearl Couscous

This supremely satisfying combination of greens and couscous falls somewhere between a pilaf and a salad.

ISRAELI PEARL COUSCOUS, originally called “p’titim” (meaning “little crumbles” in Hebrew), was invented in Israel in the 1950s when rice became scarce during a recession. Then–Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion pushed manufacturers to create a substitute. But

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