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Food is everyday-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

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Mario Batali
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 19
Chef
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Seattle
Washington
Mario Francesco Batali
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