With me were food writer Nevin Martell and Nate Anda, head butcher at Red Apron.

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Her followers on Twitter have relished her dispatches from Beijing including photographs of her pretending to be a flight attendant on board a Cathay Pacific flight and a barista at a Starbucks outlet complete with a green apron.

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My great-grandmother stood at the wood stove, periodically wiping her hands on a stained, floral-patterned apron.

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