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Gary Allen, food history editor at Leite’s Culinaria, reads two of his essays at the first “Talking With Your Mouth Full” reading event in New York City. The first is about the pleasures of eating bananas while on vacation and the second is about the unusually delicious burritos of a rotund, not-exactly-clean cook.





















