0:00 - Introduction
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1:10 - Father's background in Japan / Passage to the United States
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2:50 - Father settles in New York City -- work as a cook for J. Walter Thompson
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5:19 - Father starts a family in New York and profession as an importer and exporter
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8:45 - Decline of the import/export business during World War I
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10:21 - Father's Japanese restaurant
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11:59 - Clientele of father's restaurant
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14:09 - Types of food eaten in the household growing up
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16:46 - Variety of foods and grocers found in the neighborhood
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Keywords: 58th Street; 59th Street; 86th Street; Austrian; beef filet; bratwurst; British Isles; cabbage; corned beef; cured meats; Czechoslovakian; delicatessen; German; grocer; Hungarian; immigrants; Irish; Italian; knockwurst; New York; pasta; Queens; restaurant; sukiyaki; Thompson Company
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19:07 - Exposure to different types of ethnic food
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Keywords: 59th Street; Chinatown; classmates; dill pickles; eastside; ethnic foods; foods; grocery business; Italian; Japanese food; lox; Murray Hill; neighborhood; Osaka; pastrami; pickles; potatoes; Russian Jews; salt salmon; school; takuan; Tokyo; Yakamein
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23:39 - Neighborhood / Childhood playmates
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Keywords: 58th Street; 59th Street; Central Park; children; clocks; corner; dentist; doorman; family; Finnish; Frenchman; friends; German; ice-skating; Lexington Avenue; magazines; New York City; Park Avenue; playground; playmates; Plaza Hotel; policeman; Russia; Russian-Jewish; seamstress; second generation; stickball; superintendent; supermarket; violin repair; watches; watchmaker
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