Benjamin Tepler is a senior editor at Portland Monthly magazine in Portland, Oregon. The wilderness is his one true love, but he devotes many of his waking hours to thinking critically about pizza, canelés, and chocolate babka. To counterbalance his high-calorie diet, Benjamin spends his free time climbing Oregon’s various peaks.
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