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Since '61, grocer provides cold cuts, warm banter

Jerry DelPrete slices provolone at his East Boston store. Jerry DelPrete slices provolone at his East Boston store. (Wendy Maeda/Globe Staff)
By Chris Burrell
Globe Correspondent / August 24, 2008

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Around half past 10 on a Saturday morning, amid the metallic whir of meat slicers cutting into pink slabs of mortadella and capicola, shop owner Jerry DelPrete gives a quick lesson in cooking to the most unlikely of audiences - two teenagers. (Full article: 1100 words)

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