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AQ Top 5 Young Chefs: Israel Laura

By Brendan O'Boyle

For this Lima native, a focus on traditional flavors trumps trends.

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At age 22, Israel Laura was working in an electric cable factory outside of Barcelona, where he had emigrated from Peru as a teenager. Faced with the uninspiring prospect of a life of factory work, and tired of bouncing from...

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