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Gourmet Magazine, October 1999.

On July 14th, 1997, I flew from Cleveland to San Francisco and was driven north to the tiny town of Yountville to have dinner at The French Laundry and spend a few days talking with its chef-owner, Thomas Keller. This fact alone was something of a fluke. I’ve told the story before: a broke, unemployed writer who has never …

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