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The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts has been a fixture in the Porter Square neighborhood for more than 40 years.

Stephen Chen was a child attending Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge when a call went out for contributions to the school’s annual bake sale. Chen’s mother, Joyce Chen, baked a batch of cookies to donate and some egg rolls to bring along. To her surprise, the egg rolls were a sensation, and the other school parents asked her to make more. The interest of parents and the school community in learning how to prepare egg rolls and other Chinese dishes led Chen to hold cooking classes, first in her home and later at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. In 1958 she opened her first restaurant on Concord Avenue, and went on to have an il

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