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Food & Wine asked some of the country's best chefs to reveal their favorite bites of 2013. NYC chef and restaurateur Andrew Carmellini picks the hot smoked salmon at Willows Inn on Lummi Island: "It was on a piece of slate, a perfectly cooked piece of hot local salmon. That was freaking incredible and made me completely jealous." [F&W]