A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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A Legend In His Own Minefield
A Legend In His Own Minefield
Lives of the Great Foodies, or At Least My Own

Lives of the Great Foodies, or At Least My Own

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John Mendelssohn
Feb 04, 2010
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Lives of the Great Foodies, or At Least My Own
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As a child, I ate well only at lunchtime. My classmates would get a single slice of some unspeakable Oscar Meyer lunchmeat, the kind that came in a little puddle of slime, between slices of the world’s worst white bread, as lacking in flavor or texture as in nutrition. I, on the other hand, got huge thick sandwiches with bologna bought from an actual de…

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