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Mario Batali

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

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Mario Batali is saying that New York and New Orleans stand out as the best cities for food in America. He highlights that in New Orleans, every deli is high quality because they do not allow anything average or subpar.

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