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According to the ancient Mayan calendar, this Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, marks the end of the world. True, it's been debunked by scientists, but it’s still a good excuse to dream up your last meal. Would it be something grand and expensive? Perhaps you crave your mother’s home cooking, or the perfect loaf of bread you had in France decades ago. We took this opportunity to find out what some top chefs would have for their final feast.

Richard Blais: Owner and chef of The Spence in Atlanta

This former “Top Chef” contestant has four "end-of-the-world" meals, for four different scenarios.

“For the Armageddon, I would want a juicy, double-bacon cheeseburger and French fries fried in beef fat,” he told TODAY.com. For a zombie apocalypse, he would want his last meal to be “a four-month, dry-aged ribeye, cooked on a wood fire with mashed potatoes and shaved truffles.

Source: Today.com (blog)

by Terry Hargrove

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by MJHitchings

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