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Radio 4,30 Nov 2007,15 mins

How ice cream changed America

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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Reuben Mattus, the inventor of Haagen-Dazs ice-cream, reminds Alistair Cooke of other immigrants who have shaped America.

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