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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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Defector

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winter 2023 gift (eyebrow)

The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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Merch v3

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Albert Burneko

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Chefector

Let’s Cook Up A Nice Big Bowl Of Summer

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Chris Thompson

Life's Rich Pageant

Avoid The Long Burger

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A Big Pile Of Tomatoes Is A Salad If You Say It Is

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Let’s Fry Some Green Tomatoes

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Smoke The Pork, Pull The Pork, And Put The Pork In A Sandwich

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Let’s Make Some Slaw

A very tiny green baby tomato on the vine

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It Is Not Yet Tomato Time, Blasphemers

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Let’s Smoke Some Chicken On A Regular Charcoal Grill

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You Can Always Just Throw Together Some Seafood Stew

A plate of oysters, a bowl of mignonette sauce, and the Chefector badge

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Let’s Shuck And Eat Some Oysters

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Laura Wagner

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Crabfector

You Can Crab

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Let’s Cook Some Black Bean Soup

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Let’s Fry Up Some Crispy Seafood

A turkey leg smothered in some sort of cream-based seafood slop. Delicious.

Life Lessons

Stuff And Smother More Food, Goddammit

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Let’s Make Lobster Rolls

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Samer Kalaf

Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh leaves King Edward VII's Hospital in central London on March 16, 2021.

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This Is So Stupid

What’s The Least Flavorful Food Item That Would Nonetheless Instantly Vaporize Prince Philip?

<p>Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including <em>Point B</em>. Handsomest man in the world.</p>


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Drew Magary

In this picture taken on August 27, 2020, Daniel Chan poses with a tin of Hoisin sauce with labling that reads ÒMade in Hong KongÓ made at the Koon Chun Sauce Factory, founded by his great-grandfather n 1928, in Hong Kong, which produces soy, hoisin and oyster sauces found in Chinese restaurants and kitchens around the world. - At the Koon Chun Sauce Factory workers are scrambling to cover hundreds of thousands of bottles with new "Made in China" labels as the popular Hong Kong brand falls victim to spiralling diplomatic tensions. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / TO GO WITH: HongKong-China-US-politics-economy, FOCUS by Su Xinqi (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Hoisin Sauce And Me: A Love Story

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Let’s Cook Some Chicken Cacciatore, And Pretend To Be Hunters

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Let’s Cook Some Chicken And Dumplings

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Good Riddance To America’s Most Hated Wendy’s

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These strange yurts are now where people eat instead of inside restaurants.

New Restrictions May Close Indoor Dining Again In New York City

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Enter The Dining Yurt, With Pete Wells

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Let’s Make Banana Bread

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Patrick Redford

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College Football

Throw Mayonnaise On The Coach

Squash hunks, carrots, herbs, on a wooden surface

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Let’s Make Some Butternut Squash Soup

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What I Cooked For Thanksgiving This Year

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