Betty Corwin is going to turn 97 this month, but she says she still feels like a baby. “If you feel young, you are young,” says the native New Yorker,…
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Barbara Aliprantis digs up a generations-old family recipe for a Greek-style octopus stew in this episode of “Cooking with Granny.” Braised in red wine and cooked with love — in…
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Elizabeth Schwartz, a 64-year-old native New Yorker, has always had a fascination with languages. She majored in French in college, she has traveled to four continents, and she is proficient…
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