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Just like her mother, Ming-Na Wen will show you she cares through the love language of food.
“Whenever anyone comes to the house, it’s always, ‘Have you eaten yet?’” Wen told The Associated Press. “So that was how I came up with the title, because I wanted that as a greeting for my fans.”
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