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  <title>Cooking with Grandma Irma</title>
  <published_at>Thu Apr 02 17:04:00 -0700 2009</published_at>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <short_description>A particularly "California" brisket</short_description>
  <long_description>Grandson Caleb helps Irma prepare brisket for Passover.</long_description>
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  <author>Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</author>
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	<h1>Cooking with Grandma Irma</h1>


	<h3>By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</h3>


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Watch as Irma Zigas cooks with her grandson Caleb, preparing her own take on Passover <a href="/recipes/18967">brisket</a>. There&#8217;s love, there&#8217;s respect and teaching, there are disagreements over chopping onions&#8212;it&#8217;s family. Caleb and Irma aren&#8217;t kosher, and neither is this recipe, but it&#8217;s the one Irma&#8217;s been making since her anti-Vietnam, pro-women&#8217;s-rights activist days, when she needed to bring the family together but couldn&#8217;t spend hours in the kitchen.  
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<p class="author_bio_new"><em>You know her by many names: YaYa, Nana, Bubbe, Gangy, Grandma. <a class="red" href="http://www.chow.com/stories/94/category">Cooking with Grandma</a> celebrates family traditions. If you would like to nominate a San Francisco–based grandma for our series, please email <a href="mailto:Meredith.Arthur@chow.com">Meredith Arthur</a> with your contact information. Music courtesy of <a target="blank" href="http://www.meshuggabeachparty.com/meshugga/index.htm">Meshugga Beach Party</a>.</em></p>]]>
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