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How a dust-up with a friend kept me from making a recipe I'd wanted to make for years—homemade ketchup.

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THE JOURNEY that culminated in my appreciation of the wonder that is homemade ketchup was long, circuitous, and, as sometimes happens, littered with the body of a friend.

One autumn night in 2011, our friend Kevin slunk back in through our kitchen door, a waft of cigarette smoke trailing behind him, as he hoped to avoid his partner, Manny, who was helpin…

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