
Food writer and humorist Elissa Altman reads her essay about the challenges her father faced when bringing Jewish contraband–chicken fat and chopped liver–back across the border to Canada. Still, she says, it never stopped him.

Food writer and humorist Elissa Altman reads her essay about the challenges her father faced when bringing Jewish contraband–chicken fat and chopped liver–back across the border to Canada. Still, she says, it never stopped him.
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