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The foodie Twitterverse spread quickly with sad news yesterday of food legend Michael Batterberry's passing late Wednesday. Batterberry was the founder of Food & Wine magazine as well as Food Arts magazine, and was honored with a lifetime achievement award at this year's James Beard Foundation Awards. "A very sad loss for the food world," tweets Ruth Reichl, former editor in chief of Gourmet. Head over to The New York Times for the official obituary for the Manhattan resident.