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Speaker 1: You are listening to Ruthie's Table four in partnership with Montclair.

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Speaker 2: This is River Cafe Table four with me Ruthie Rogers.

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Speaker 2: On River Cafe Table four, I talk to friends who

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Speaker 2: know the River Cafe well about food, the food they cook,

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Speaker 2: the food they eat, the food of their memories.

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Speaker 1: Penne with zucchini and lemon zest Serve six.

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Speaker 2: This week I have wonderful, beautiful, brilliant, few adjectives emily plant.

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Speaker 1: One kilo medium zucchini, yellow green or ridged.

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Speaker 2: In each episode, my guest reads a recipe they have

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Speaker 2: chosen from one of our cookbooks.

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Speaker 1: Two tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: grams unsalted butter, one garlic clove, peeled and thinly sliced,

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Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty grams penne. One bunch of fresh

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Speaker 1: mint leaves, roughly torn, two lemons, preferably a Malfi. Wash

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Speaker 1: and trim the zucchini and cut into small pieces, and

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Speaker 1: in a large saucepan, heat the olive oil with one

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Speaker 1: hundred grams of the butter. Add the zucchini and stir

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Speaker 1: season well, adding the garlic, cook gently, stirring from time

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Speaker 1: to time for twenty minutes. Bring a pot of salted

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Speaker 1: water to the boil, Add the penne to the water

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Speaker 1: and cook ten minutes or until al dente. Drain and

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Speaker 1: add to the zucchini. Add the remaining butter and the

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Speaker 1: mint leaves. Mix thoroughly great, lemon zest on top.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Emily. Here we are in the River Cafe,

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Speaker 2: late afternoon, looking at the restaurant, getting ready actually for

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Speaker 2: the evening service.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait.

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Speaker 2: I'm so happy that you chose this recipe because it

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Speaker 2: is one of my favorites. A shud I say that

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Speaker 2: most times the recipe is my favorite, but.

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Speaker 3: This one is. And I was wondering why this recipe

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Speaker 3: do you cook it?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, it just has three of my favorite things in it,

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Speaker 1: so any I just wanted to pick one of your

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Speaker 1: pasta dishes because it is my ultimate favorite thing and

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Speaker 1: what I crave most.

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Speaker 2: And did you grow up eating pasta? Yes, the food child, but.

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Speaker 1: It was more like spaghetti, you know my mom. My

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Speaker 1: mom did tell me, well, God bless her. She had

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Speaker 1: four kids, and I'm sure we were all wanting different things,

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Speaker 1: and she just had so many kids in so little

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Speaker 1: time that very often she'd be like, you know, you

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Speaker 1: get what you get and you don't get upset. But

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Speaker 1: I do have this lasting memory of her spaghetti bolonnaise

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Speaker 1: and then always wanting just pasta with butter and cheese

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Speaker 1: as well. So she would always let us have the

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Speaker 1: pasta with the butter and if we had the bolonese first.

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Speaker 1: And I find myself doing it to my kids, I

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Speaker 1: will bribe them. They've got to have the sauce pasta

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Speaker 1: and then they can have just the butter and cheeses cheese.

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Speaker 2: And when kids come to the River Cafe for lunch families,

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Speaker 2: you know, two pasta, butter and cheese. But in fact

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Speaker 2: it is really delici.

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Speaker 1: It's actually delicious. No, I have to be careble not

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Speaker 1: to them. They love lasagna, they love I mean, I've

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Speaker 1: always made them all kinds of pasta, sauces, and I'll

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Speaker 1: sneak all kinds of things in there and try and

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Speaker 1: get it past them. My oldest one will try most things, steak, chicken.

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Speaker 1: Neither of them want the fish, apart from sushi fish.

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Speaker 2: It's funny about yeah, I know, my stepson said fish.

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Speaker 3: He was about thirty.

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Speaker 1: I think it's so weird. I don't know why.

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Speaker 3: Fish maybe where they look, or maybe.

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Speaker 1: The b they look. To be honest, I think it

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Speaker 1: what they look and it kind of roastes them out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were once Increase. It was about four and

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Speaker 2: it was fishing. It's stand there all day. We made

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Speaker 1: We had a fishing experience in Martha's Vineyard, where we

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Speaker 1: I make this chicken noodle soup that they really love.

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Speaker 1: I actually used ginger in it, and it has this

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Speaker 2: I always say you should always have chicken soup arow.

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Speaker 2: I always have a part of chicken soup because there

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Speaker 2: is something so sustaining about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very Moorish. It was one of the first

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Speaker 2: Chicken soup, I think it's always interested the food we

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Speaker 2: cook for an occasion.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was going to once to do a book

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Speaker 2: called What to Cook When when you're depressed, when you're broke,

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Speaker 2: when you want us to do somebody when you don't

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Speaker 2: have somebody important coming to dinner? Did you think about

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Speaker 2: that when you were cooking for him?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's funny. I guess they just made that. I

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Speaker 1: knew he would love, like I mean, a roast chicken.

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Speaker 1: Who doesn't love roast chicken. And the roast chicken I

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Speaker 2: But were you going out tell me more about your

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Speaker 2: Did your mother work or she had four kids and

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Speaker 2: so her cooking was well.

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Speaker 1: So she was an actress when Fie and I were

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So was it very British?

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Speaker 3: And what was that?

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Speaker 2: As an American, I'm really intrigued by the whole British

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Speaker 1: Well, it's like Christmas Dinner, Thanksgiving. Yeah, Sunday, every Sunday

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Speaker 1: dad's plate, just like swimming in Great swimming In.

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Speaker 4: Emily talked about Sunday roast when she was a child.

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Speaker 4: So when we're roasting meat here, we like to sear

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Speaker 4: we can go in with hard herbs, whether it's rosemary,

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Speaker 4: slow roasted veal, spatchcock chickens, pot roasted beef filet. This

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Speaker 2: The River Cafe Cafe are all day space and just

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Speaker 2: steps away from the restaurant. Is now open in the

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Speaker 2: morning an Italian breakfast with cornetti, ciambella and crostada from

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Speaker 2: our pastry kitchen. In the afternoon, ice creamed coups and River.

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Speaker 3: Cafe classic desserts.

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Speaker 2: We have sharing plates Alumi, misti, mozzarella, brusqueto, red and

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Speaker 2: yellow peppers, fortello, tonato and more. Come in the evening

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Speaker 2: for cocktails with our resident pianist in the bar, No

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Speaker 2: need to book, see you here. So when you're growing

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Speaker 2: up with this, you know, really important food tradition in

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Speaker 2: your house of sitting down to dinner that your mother goes.

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Speaker 2: What age did you kind of leave, Did you go

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Speaker 1: I did this play with my school and an agent

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Speaker 1: Judy Dench and she was just divine to me, and

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Speaker 3: So some people use it.

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Speaker 1: Do you know, I do see what you're saying about

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Speaker 2: And I was like, and what about the politics of food?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I mean when I have dinner when my grandchildren

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Speaker 2: have a spaghetti with peas or we do something called farinata.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever had the chickpea flower? Yes?

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Speaker 2: And so they don't have to have gluten and you know,

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Speaker 2: you can have a whole meal.

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Speaker 1: And I get so excited to look at your menu

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Speaker 1: and just see what's changed, and it changes all the time.

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Speaker 1: It's just so exciting.

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Speaker 2: So if you were thinking about comfort, do you have

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Speaker 2: a comfort food that you would that this could be anything,

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Speaker 2: It could be something that you reach for when you're

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Speaker 2: feeling back to what to eat, when, what to cook?

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Speaker 4: When?

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Speaker 3: All right, I'll do comfort.

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Speaker 1: Like for me, one of my favorite things is a

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Speaker 1: toasted bagel with tons of butter and marmite. Oh, it's

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Speaker 1: my favorite thing. That I really say, it's heaven. But

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Speaker 1: I will say the other thing if I were to

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Speaker 1: because it's pasta that I create is a couch with pepe. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's so simple, and it's just one of my favorite things.

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Speaker 1: And the first time I had it was in Rome.

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Speaker 1: I was shooting a TV series in Rome that was

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Speaker 1: not a very good and I was living alone in

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Speaker 1: Rome and I was like twenty years old, lived there

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Speaker 1: for three months. Bachie the armorer me Barchie. It was

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Speaker 1: near Campbeldi Fiori, and I'd go to all of these

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Speaker 1: little local places, and I noticed that don't go to

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Speaker 1: the tourist places. And I remember this one Italian restaurhere,

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Speaker 1: all the locals went. The vat of wine was just

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Speaker 1: put on the table. I don't know what wine it was,

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Speaker 1: it didn't matter, and you get what you get and

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Speaker 1: they bring you a steak or pasta, whatever they have,

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Speaker 1: and it was just heaven. To eat like that. There's

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Speaker 1: simplicity of it, and I remember going and having couchy

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Speaker 1: to pepe and people saying this. I think they called

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Speaker 1: it like the peasant pasta or something. It was sort

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Speaker 1: of known as being a really sort of low brow pasta.

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Speaker 1: But I was like, but it's a passive.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a brilliant food because it's the cheese

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Speaker 2: actually pasta butter and cheese.

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Speaker 1: It's just got a lot of tea, a little bit

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Speaker 1: of you just want to eat like my children.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe the food is food memories of childhood. And

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Speaker 3: Tom for it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much, thank you, thank you, oh,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening to Ruthie's Table four in partnership

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