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My Favorite Traveling Food Photo

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Human memory is a funny thing. While we experience life 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our brain only records specific moments that we can access after the moment has passed. That’s one of the reasons why photographs are so amazing — they work like little picture brains, helping to catalog the parts…

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The Most Amazing Butcher in the World

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You have to be a pretty serious food geek to know who Dario Cecchini is. I first learned of him by reading Bill Buford’s excellent book Heat (Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany) where Buford learns the secrets of butchering and more from…

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