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“Oddly, recipes came with warnings that to eat reheated cabbage was fatal. “Twice cooked cabbage is death,” an ancient adage popular in the Renaissance, referred both to that belief and to the tedium of listening to a comment repeated over and over.” quote by Francine Segan — Download Open image

““Oddly, recipes came with warnings that to eat reheated cabbage was fatal. “Twice cooked cabbage is death,” an ancient adage popular in the Renaissance, referred both to that belief and to the tedium of listening to a comment repeated over and over.””

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