Ben Vaughn's Kitchen Dispatches from the South Substack by Ben Vaughn

Ben Vaughn's Kitchen Dispatches from the South

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Three of my favorite things are cooking, eating and traveling. If you ever catch me doing any of these things in a truly exploratory sense, you'll have found me, as they say, "in my element."

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About Ben Vaughn

A chef who has spent thirty years watching people across a table. These essays aren't really about food. They're about what food reveals.

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