It’s a stock question of the food journalist: tell me about how you ate as a child, or what are your earliest food memories. It can elicit insight into heritage, and the origin story of a career in food. But it can also dig up tropes. I often wonder if a chef (usually a chef) has had a session with an uninspired PR consul…
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