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The result is creamy and crisp, rich and briny, soft and crunchy all at once — a protein-rich, textural love letter to myself.

According to a company release, the project is meant as a “modern-day love letter to the games and people who made Chuck E. Cheese great.”

Writers of the project previously told The Times they wanted “Pump” to be a love letter to Venice Beach in the early 1970s and the birth of the modern bodybuilding culture.

It’s part exposé, part love letter and all swagger.

The piece is part dispatch, part lament: a love letter to a Beirut that had finally begun to bloom again, only to be bombed back into memory.