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Meeting Location & Time:
When: Monday, November 14th @ 7:00pm
Where: Stella's House
Theme: Iranian Food or Food that you would miss if you had to leave your home country at a tender young age
Tell Us What You're Bringing:
Summary:
Attendees: Alex, Maxine, Phil, Stella
Food: Iranian food - Shrimp in Tomato Cream Sauce, Green Bean and Egg Pancake, Cucumber and Tomato Salad, Basmati Rice; Comfort food - Cherry Pie, Ice Cream and Magic Shell
Discussion: I am bad and can barely remember the meeting discussion. We all felt a little unknowledgeable about the entire time period and not up on our Iranian Revolution trivia. We also did not really understand why the book was called Persepolis. We turned to the Wikipedia for some general background information.