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Slate's Explainer: Holy Grilled Cheese Shuns Mold

NPR | By Andy Bowers

Published November 29, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains how a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich that supposedly bears an image of the Virgin Mary has remained free of mold. The sandwich recently sold for $28,000 on the eBay.com online auction site.

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Andy Bowers

Andy Bowers oversees Slate's collaboration with NPR?s daytime news magazine, Day to Day. He helps produce the work of Slate's writers for radio, and can also be heard on the program.