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My grandmother’s green beans

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“Un goût de revenez-y”  is a fairly idiomatic french expression which literally translates to “a taste of come-back-to-it”. My grandmother’s green beans, in my mind, are the exact definition of that expression. At her funeral, when asked to say a few words, it’s pretty much the only thing that came to my mind (that, and…