Lagasse's next big move was to do a live version of his cooking show in a New York studio.

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These are people who have just walked away from jobs and family, letting people live in their houses, cooking for them, on the phone every day.

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The event will feature live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling, and, of course, Easter egg rolling.

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At the moment, a widower who needs help with washing, dressing and cooking, for example, can live at home and get assistance from people who visit several times a day.

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Here flickering candles and often live klezmer set the scene for solid home cooking such as garlicky borscht (beetroot and onion soup), pierogi (filled dumplings fried in butter) and honey-roasted lamb.

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There are homes in this country where the only way to cook chicken is to catch the live fowl running in the garden, kill it, and prepare it for cooking.

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The town outside the oilfields, Deadhorse, started because of oil, and you don't live there unless you have something to do with the industry, whether it's repair work or cooking for the workers or running the small amount of tourism that takes the trek north.

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