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By RAPHAEL MINDER
Published: February 19, 2011
MADRID — Santi Santamaría, a chef and restaurant owner who helped raise the international profile of Spanish cuisine but invited controversy by criticizing avant-garde chefs and their techniques, including the use of chemical emulsifiers, died on Wednesday in Singapore. He was 53. More