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Old 05-24-2014, 02:57 PM
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My husband's mother and grandmother used to make a dish called arroz con pollo, translated "chicken with rice." We used to refer to it as Cardboard Chicken (behind their backs, of course). Perhaps that is what Hemingway is making and calling paella.
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