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Andrea Pyenson is a food writer and editor based in Newton and Truro, Mass. She was co-author of three cookbooks with chef Andy Husbands and his barbecue teammate, Chris Hart, and helped edit The Boston Globe’s New England Seafood Cookbook.
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