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ABOUT Rachel L. Swarns
ARTICLES:

Holding On to Our Culinary Heritage
September 21, 2012
New York Times correspondent Rachel L. Swarns reflects on the role that culinary traditions play in the cultural change and loss that can accompany the American experience.
Meet the First Lady's Multiracial Ancestors
| July 06, 2012From her slave-owning forebear to a living great-aunt, here are the relatives revealed in a new book.
Madison and the White House, Through the Memoir of a Slave
| August 17, 2009Paul Jennings was a slave in James Madison's White House, and became the first person to put his recollections of it into a memoir.












