The best food is often vacation food because everything tastes better when it's served within sight of sand and sea or under a canopy of stars � and you're not responsible for any of the cooking.
But because food evokes so many great memories of place and time, the dishes we eat when we're at the beach or some other fun getaway spot are what we end up craving when life returns to a boring normal.
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