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A turkey, ham or roast surrounded by side dishes might be what comes to mind when you think of a traditional Christmas dinner. But for more than 35 years and counting, Christmas dinner in Diane Richardson’s house has been a large pot of lamb curry.
Richardson lives in Kirkwood, Mo., just outside St. Louis, but she grew up in Kalamazoo, Mich., where her father was a geography professor. Her dad’s job took the family to Nigeria for a year at a university, where they lived on the campus with many other visiting families in the early 1970s. It was here that Richardson’s mother met a Lebanese woman who first made this dish and gave her mother the recipe.
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