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The path to culinary success is often rocky, and no one knows this better than chef, writer, and podcast host Zahra Tangorra, owner of Zaza Lazagna in Brooklyn, NY. In December 2006, she was traveling in California with a musician friend on his tour bus when the driver fell asleep and the bus went over a cliff. She remembers thinking, “I don’t want to feel myself die.” Luckily, everyone survived; Tangorra’s hand was gashed and broken. She decided not to return to her physically demanding job as a display designer. Instead, with the accident settlement money, she focused on food.
Find the story, plus a video about food photography, at hue.fitnyc.edu

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