Even the stunning Neve Campbell made her way down the street, dodging knives, running and throwing stuff, and the childhood Canadian crush in me was delighted when she smiled my way and waved.

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"I would love to get something out in the UK, because I've lived there half my childhood, " she said.

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"It was a combination of remembering my own childhood and thinking about gifts I'd been given, " she said in an interview last week at her husband's downtown Manhattan design firm, explaining the genesis of the latest book.

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When my grandmother left to go to college in what was then Leningrad, she brought with her the recipes of her childhood.

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