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Art history, Korean beef at The Prado
“San Diego’s greatest sculptor, yet people like you don’t even know him.”
By Ed Bedford
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Art history, Korean beef at The Prado
“San Diego’s greatest sculptor, yet people like you don’t even know him.”
Little things mean a lot: the first little thing that makes me like this place is the, well, amuse-bouche. Wedges of crisp flatbread stacked vertically like surfboards. They have sesame and other seeds baked on ...
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