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Xue Baochen, I trusted you. You built up my hopes, allowed me to dream that a pumpkin marinated in soy sauce would age like a fine wine into a complex rainbow of flavors. Something worthy of the name you gave it, “vegetarian ham.” I followed your instructions, left with the question of how a cutContinue reading “Vegetarian ham: anatomy of a (really gross) failure”