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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Did Greek Cuisine Foreshadow Economic Problems?

Updated: August 11 2010,
Author: barrel fan
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Budget Deficit, Budgeting, Consumers, Credit, Demand, Foreign Exchange, Markets, Money, Trade, Exchange and Interdependence
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A food writer sees parallels between Greece’s crushing economic problems and its departure from its simple, humble culinary roots. Paul Solman reports.

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