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The Border, Bill Greene, and the Real Mexican Food
by Joseph Harris On a stepfather who brought avocados into a North Carolina kitchen in 1962, the bullfight in Juarez when I was twelve, and the Yucatán cooking that has finally found its way to America This chapter begins, as so many chapters of my life do, with my stepfather Bill Greene. Bill is the subject of his own document and his own deepening list of stories — he was my mother’s second husband, married into our family in 1962, and was the most interesting man I have ev
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