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Long Island chefs dish on post-'Top Chef' gigs

Chef Harold Dieterle in the kitchen of his

Photo credit: Melissa Hom | Chef Harold Dieterle in the kitchen of his contemporary Thai restaurant Kin Shop in Manhattan. (Sept. 2011)

A caption under a 1988 newspaper photo showing an 11-year-old boy crabbing off the Babylon Town dock couldn't have been more prophetic:

"Harold Dieterle III of West Babylon works for his supper," it read.

Fast-forward 18 years and Dieterle would not only work for his supper on a television reality competition show, but he also would go on to be the first winner of "Top...

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