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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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