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'She saved my life,' superstar chef Alon Shaya says of his Harriton High home-ec teacher

When he was a student in Donna Barnett's home-economics class at Harriton High School in Lower Merion, Alon Shaya chopped a lot of onions. That's because Shaya - now a superstar chef whose New Orleans spot was just named best new restaurant in the country - was a troublemaker as a kid.

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