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| | My mother's 'torta' - Nov. 20, 2003 |
 | | Torta is a light cake, evocative of celebration, bearing the definitive stamp of my mother, and the one thing that is hard-wired into my brain as the culinary equivalent of home. |
 | | In a time when we are inundated with grim warnings about the artery-clogging effects of lard, you would think that she would have switched to a healthier, and more politically correct, alternative. |
 | | One time, extreme measures had to be taken to remedy the torta equivalent of the sinking of the Titanic: the dough, perhaps owing to cold weather, sank and failed to ferment through the night. |
| www.inq7.net /lif/2003/nov/20/lif_2-1.htm (790 words) |
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