Article: CELEBRITY CHEF CHAT / SHEILA AND MARILYNN BRASS Sisters keep recipes alive

Their cooking expertise is difficult to dispute: "We are two roundish, bespectacled women who have a combined total of 114 years of home cooking experience," they write in their latest book, "Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters" (Black Dog & Leventhal, $29.95).

These are the Brass sisters, Sheila and Marilynn, whose latest book took them across the country in search of family recipes and their stories. Many dishes bear the names of their creators: Alice McGinty's London Broil, Bunny Slobodzinski's Stuffed Cabbage with Salt Pork Gravy, Dot's Tuna Crescents.

They were jotted down on postcards and hotel stationery, index cards, packing slips, lined notebook paper and blank journals known as ...

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