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the Richardson's breakfast guests were right on time welcome to Cairo guys hi welcome to California dialing in from Egypt over skype for a cultural exchange through a new project called the virtual dinner guest how much trust do you have in giving up your vote there's more criticism towards the candidate not the process sonoma california based Francini richardson and listed her family in the project as a way for them to break bread and gain a better understanding of people in conflict-ridden countries what i felt from those young people was more powerful than anything i could read in the news in preparation of the chat she prepared fool a typical egyptian breakfast food it's fava beans with tomatoes and garlic and cumin it's refried beans of the Middle East virtual dinner guest founder Erik Maddox says the goal is to eat with your mind full as simple as having a video monitor at the end of a dinner table and a decent internet connection and some food Richardson's grandchildren Emma and Creighton even got to take the day off from school for this teachable moment the family rules in Egypt are they different from here I thought it was really cool that we could talk to someone on the other side of the world the idea is that it's something that immediately allows us to see the humanity and they in our co participants as for the Richardson family the dialogue is just beginning in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News