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Cocaine & Cooking at Chez Panisse

“The more consumption of drugs, the less demand for food.”

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Apr 15, 2023
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It was cocaine that became the fuel for the energy that changed the way America dines, and for the high-profile and all-consuming peripatetic schedules that launched the…

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