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“That bean obviously had nothing to do with Jesus because the bean predates him,” said Kelly Jacques, a co-owner of Ayu Bakehouse in New Orleans. 0.950

👤 Kelly Jacques 📋 News Article

Simplified: Kelly Jacques said bean had nothing to do with Jesus because bean predates him

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“Many here are certain the baby is meant to symbolize the baby Jesus, while others think that premise is ridiculous,” said Liz Williams, the founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. 0.950

👤 Liz Williams 📋 News Article

Simplified: Liz Williams said many are certain baby symbolizes baby Jesus while others think premise is ridiculous

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Tradition dictates that the baby will be hidden within the cake before it is served. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Tradition dictates baby be hidden within cake before served

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Between Three Kings’ Day on Jan. 6 and Mardi Gras — celebrated this year on Feb. 17 — bakeries in New Orleans churn out hundreds of thousands of ring-shaped king cakes, filled with cinnamon and other... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Bakeries in New Orleans churn out hundreds of thousands of ring-shaped king cakes between Three Kings Day and Mardi Gras

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“Don’t forget the baby,” said Linh Tran Garza, the president of Dong Phuong Bakery, a Vietnamese American shop that has become one of the city’s most popular purveyors of king cakes. 0.950

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Simplified: Linh Tran Garza said do not forget the baby

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The fact, for example, that the tradition of hiding an object, in this case a bean, inside a pastry can be traced to the Saturnalia festival in ancient Rome is all the proof some need that the baby do... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Tradition of hiding object inside pastry can be traced to Saturnalia festival in ancient Rome

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Whoever finds the figure is crowned queen or king of the party and tasked with providing the next king cake. 0.950

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Simplified: Whoever finds figure is crowned queen or king of party and tasked with providing next king cake

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Almost always it is studded with a small plastic baby. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: King cake is almost always studded with small plastic baby

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New Orleanians can’t agree on the identity of the King Cake Baby. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: New Orleanians cannot agree on the identity of the King Cake Baby

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Morrison is up there for good reason. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: Morrison is up there for good reason

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I dare them — be the unorthodoxy you hope to see. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: Be the unorthodoxy you hope to see

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Her “Beloved” chapter includes a passage on the multiple judgments among the characters of Sethe’s murder — some would say her sparing — of her infant daughter and surmises that “the reader is left wi... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Her “Beloved” chapter includes a passage on the multiple judgments among the characters of Sethe’s murder

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Serpell performs mini-disquisitions on anthropological syncretism. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Serpell performs mini-disquisitions on anthropological syncretism

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Serpell uses the occasion of “The Bluest Eye,” a book imagining the psychological blast radius of incest and rape, to wonder about an assortment of cultural maladies — censorship, identity politics ru... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Serpell uses the occasion of “The Bluest Eye” to wonder about cultural maladies

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He could detect in her writing some Woolf, some Faulkner, and when he lost their trace in “Beloved,” the book lost him, because it ceased to obediently correspond with the traditional Western literary... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Bloom could detect in her writing some Woolf some Faulkner and when he lost their trace in “Beloved” the book lost him

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Bloom seemed most alarmed at what had, in his estimation, befallen Morrison. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Bloom seemed most alarmed at what had befallen Morrison

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He informed Rose that Morrison “began as a very strong writer and reached a kind of culmination in ‘Song of Solomon’,” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Bloom informed Rose that Morrison began as a strong writer and reached a culmination in ‘Song of Solomon’

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She’s putting these books on the grill. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: She is putting these books on the grill.

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He went on: “She has been, I believe, victimized by the times, in trying to give the age what she feels the age demands.” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Bloom said Morrison has been victimized by the times

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Stanley Crouch, in a famously dyspeptic and fairly typical heave-ho, from 1987, declaimed “Beloved” a “blackface Holocaust novel.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literary Criticism

Simplified: Stanley Crouch declaimed “Beloved” a “blackface Holocaust novel” in 1987

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