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Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | Amazon Music | YouTube This summer we’re bringing you a road trip series, exploring food destinations and cuisines with the writers and storytellers who know them best. This week, we revisit a conversation from one of our Live shows in Orange County, CA, where we talked with the good people behind some of the best barbecue and purveyors of Vietnamese tacos in California, to find out why you really, really want to eat in Orange County. For this road-tripping series, we wanted to highlight our conversation with award-winning journalist Gustavo…
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