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places,
writes Eve Aronot who studied comparative literature at Brandeis
University near Boston. "I think by reading books set in those distant cultures, I felt absorbed into at la transported to those places. I especially loved
reading about foods from warm and exotic cultures and those are the influences that have come together to define my style — West African, North
African, Cuban. Vietnamese, I love the combination of sweet, spicy and savory ingredients coming together with lots of textures and cc-mtrasts.