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Call me late to the party, but I'm discovering the joy of feeding kids home-cooked meals

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ST ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA

Clara Chow

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When I was 16, the curry puffs I made in Home Economics were voted unanimously Worst In Class.
Our teacher - who was into democratic peer review, watching her waistline or not a masochist for tasting adolescent failed kitchen experiments (or all three) - had given us the job of grading one another's amateur pastries.
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