"It's negative news, " said 39-year-old Raymond Botelho, a Cape Cod, Mass.

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Twelve-year-old Jake Robinson lives in a recently remodeled Cape Cod-style house in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Ms. Perillo began to build her collection of old-time cookbooks in 2007, when she was vacationing on Cape Cod and stumbled across the Betty Furness volume at the Wellfleet Flea Market.

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