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standing in the middle of the dining room and the branches extending above the roof. He brought in Moshe as the cook, and Moshe soon took over the place. Like the bakery Basson's father had owned, the restaurant initially catered to working people. The tables were covered with red-checked
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neighborhood, and cultivated a vegetable garden and raised chickens to supplement their government food rations. In the early 1960s Moshe planted a
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1461:Dunkin'
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259:Cuisine
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