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" If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would. "

Anthony Bourdain

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" Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way. "

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