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In my June interview with Cheese & Crack owner William Steuernagel, Steuernagel shouted out his old friends and former neighbors at Malka, Jessie Aron’s homey and often wildly eclectic restaurant on Southeast Division. Riffing on the restaurant’s signature trait of naming dishes playful things, I made up a name for a nonexistent dish on the spot: Ziggy Stardust On a Big
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