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Nate Appleman (Professional Chef, San Francisco, CA (United States), A16 Food and Wine, SPQR, A16)

As a native of Greenville, Ohio, I grew up cooking. At seventeen, I enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park - I never doubted for a moment that I wanted to be a chef. With a growing affinity for butchery that began at the CIA, I became interested in the process of curing meats. I then moved to Florence, Italy for six months to further this interest - there I learned to forego…