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Eating Around the World
While reading through your Summer Journey Special Issue [June 25-July 2], featuring a novel's worth of reporting on food, I noticed comments about people being very conservative and preferring the particular flavors they encountered as children. That is not always the case. When I was 18, I became a vegan and tried tofu for the first time, but I was not put off by its strangeness. When I was 20, I went to France from Canada and tried the best food I had ever eaten.
Daniel Owens,
Paris

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