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SHANIA TWAIN

I grew up eating porridge, potatoes and hamburgers.

Stews were a big thing, too. The main one in our house was hamburger stew, with ground beef, onion, garlic, potatoes, carrots, turnips and cabbage. We didn’t have a lot of money — it ’s a poor man’s stew, but it ’s really good.

There’s a Canadian bread called bannock and it’s one of my absolute

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