Thomas Keller on Bringing Culinary Prestige to Miami

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Thomas Keller once swore he’d never return to South Florida. The region of his youth, as he recalls, “wasn’t a place like it is today — there wasn’t a lot of culinary opportunity for me in the early ‘80s.” But decades later, the French Laundry and Per Se icon has come back — not just to open restaurants, but to build community. With The Surf Club Restaurant and now Bouchon in Coral Gables, Keller is rewriting Miami’s culinary…