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Hey, it's Francis.

Harold McGee is one of the truly game-changing food writers of this lifetime.

He really changed how chefs and home cooks think about food.

And here's a whole episode we dedicated to my conversation with him a few years ago.

Enjoy you.

I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM.

Music When I was in culinary school, we didn't have many textbooks per se.

I mean, we did have this one enormous thousand-page cookbook that covered all the basic techniques we were supposed to learn.

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