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Full Easter menu made with local ingredients

Easter dinner, LI style, is centered around roasted

Photo credit: Michael E. Ach | Easter dinner, LI style, is centered around roasted duck with raspberry-plum sauce.

Sylvia Carter

Sylvia Carter Sylvia Carter

Carter writes a food column for Newsday.

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Instead of buying salad greens and asparagus from California, you can find alternatives grown closer to home. And Long Island's famous duck can be the centerpiece of an Easter meal.

A few decades ago, many Long Island families lived on farms, or knew someone who did. And one of the local traditions, particularly in Polish families, was roast duck.

Christopher Junda tells of his grandmother...

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