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Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

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Gail Simmons
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 19
Journalist
Television Personality
City of Toronto
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Culinary
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Ultimately
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Cooking
Everything
Realized
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Moved
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York
Writing
Food
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