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For our annual review of stories, our writers and editors have put together lists of the stories they were proud of this year, or just had fun writing or reading. Here are Senior Editor Matt Kettmann’s picks.

According to our archives, I wrote more than 130 stories for the newspaper this year, and most of them revolved around food and drink, which is my main beat these days

Cover Stories

I always enjoy diving deep into a topic, which is afforded by the length of our cover stories, and I was able to do so numerous times this year.

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