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    YSANNE SPEVACK

    Mar 13, 2019 3 minutes

    INTERVIEW BY Alice Garbarini Hurley | Ysanne, did you eat your vegetables as a child?

    Ysanne Spevack | I grew up in the 1970s. Vegetables were often overcooked or frozen, but I remember enjoying cucumbers and salad greens, particularly butter lettuce, the standard variety of lettuce in London  at that time.

    Do you live a farm-to-table lifestyle?

    I am an advocate for growing your own food, and cooking from scratch when possible. I ran edible estates in California for many years, a minimum of 2 acres per garden – they were mini-farms. I grew 100 percent of the

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