Peter the young bride, lois, had married into the dedomenico family, owners of the golden grain macaroni company. Her armenian landlady taught her how to make rice pilaf. Lois added a twist. Erica with swansons chicken soup mixed in to make it delicious. And the brothers who ran thethe brothers who ran the Pasta Company realized that since they also had a sideline in making dried soup mixes, that they could turn this into a boxed meal and sell it as an alternative to potatoes on your plate, which they promptly did. And it was very successful. The older brother, vincent dedomenico, came up with the name ricearoni. Peter there was practically nothing you could put on your plate that you couldnt pour out of a box. [music] michael you know, when somebody says to me, your three best meals of your life . There are always going to be three meals that completely changed my thought process, and chez panisse was my first. [music] peter alice waters was a teenager in a tiny midwest town when she
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