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	Newsday&#39;s Elisa DiStefano is on the hunt for Long Island&#39;s best pancakes. She sat down with Newsday food writer Marie Elena Martinez at Hatch in Huntington, and then stopped by Maureen&#39;s Kitchen in Smithtown.
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