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					| Circus 
					Cooking  Did you ever think about joining the circus?  Well, 
					Raymond Slizewski did exactly that.  "I was 40 when I 
					ran away from home and joined the circus," Slizewski said, 
					"and it was the best
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					I ever made."  The half-Samoan half-Polish Slizewski 
					received his culinary degree at Newbury College in Boston 
					and has been applying his cookery skills as the chef and 
					cookhouse manager for the Big Apple Circus for the past five 
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					| Let Them Eat 
					Cake  Cake is a simple mixture of ingredients including flour, 
					eggs, butter, milk and sugar.  These confectionary 
					concoctions have
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					a part of our history for thousands of years going back to 
					the early Egyptian culture.  Cake-making evidence has 
					been found in caves where our culinary predecessors produced 
					coarse and floury delights on heated stones.  You could 
					say that "Let them eat cake," was our motto...  (read
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					| Vlora Restaurant 
  Chef Aldo Velaj loves to cook his favorite dishes from the 
					North Mediterranean region, including Southern Italy, Greece 
					and Velaj's homeland, Albania.  His subterranean 
					restaurant Vlora, named after the city where Velaj was born, 
					is located on the lower level at 545 Boylston Street...  
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					| Hawaiian Birthday 
					Party  George 
					DiVenuti always wanted to spend his 50th in Hawaii.  
					Well, that wasn't possible so we brought Hawaii to George.  
					Vlora Restaurant located at 545 Boylston Street in Boston 
					was converted to a tropical Hawaiian location...  (read
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