Cooking Up Miracles – Guideposts

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Can a miracle come in the form of an old cookbook?

 

Doctors didn’t have much faith that 100-year-old Ruth Levy would get better. Complications from pneumonia made it unlikely she’d ever return home from the hospital.

 

That all changed when one of her relatives, David Vos, decided to pay her a visit. Before he left, he pulled a first-edition book off his mother’s shelf: Clémentine in the Kitchen, by Samuel Chamberlain. Something to read to Ruth in the hospital.

 

“I didn’t know the book,” David told The New York Times, “but it was about cooking, it looked old and it seemed to have character, so I threw it in my shoulder bag.”

 

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