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Many chefs strive to express local terroir in their dishes, but Hajime Yoneda, chef and owner at Hajime restaurant in Osaka, Japan, aims higher with a signature plate called chikyu, which translates to "earth." "If there were an intergalactic culinary competition, I'd want this to represent the planet," he says.

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