Chris Malloy
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13 Ways of Looking at a Vegetable

Chef Stephen Jones uses vegetables as an artist uses a canvas.

17Phoenix New TimesFood Criticism2018

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Stephen Jones makes cucumber pickles like pucks. They are thick with a compact, sliding bite, like gumdrops without sugar. As raw cucumbers from Abby Lee Farms they begin life. Jones transforms these humble vegetables from the gourd family using apple cider vinegar and spices into discs with bewildering musk, heady tang, and alien chew.

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