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ANNETTE TELLS TALES The Novelist Who Realized How Bad American Food Was

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Annette Laing
May 12, 2021
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Novelist, screenwriter, and farmer Louis Bromfield (center), best man at Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall’s wedding (1945) as they cut a cake he probably thought was junk, and it probably was. Photo…

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