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TASTING THE DIFFERENCE

When Anna Valentine was a little girl, her eyes would widen in awe at the weird and wonderful pieces of kitchen equipment her father – an “old-school foodie” – brought home from overseas business trips.

Pasta machines, fondue sets, woks and a Mongolian hot pot all piqued her interest in cooking early on. “He was into Chinese cooking and he’d do stir-fries for us and cook all these different types of dishes,” she says. “It felt like what we were eating was different to

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