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    Sanitation
    Sanitation
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    Sanitation

    By Barry Rachin

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    Maria Santos, who just bought the Breakfast Nook, knows nothing about cross-contamination, pest control, immersion gauges or reduced-oxygen packaging. The new health inspector is every restaurant owner’s worse nightmare, but Maria needn’t worry. She’s got an ace up her culinary sleeve.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateJan 27, 2012
    ISBN9781466018808
    Sanitation
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    Barry Rachin

    About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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      Sanitation - Barry Rachin

      Sanitation

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      Barry Rachin

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