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https://apa.si.edu/picklesandtea/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2008/09/2866457516_b94f35aa22.jpg333500We’ve all had sweet and sour pork at some point or another. If you, like me, have been put off this dish forever by greasy battered pork doused in toxic pink glow-in-the-dark sauce served at a Chinese-American restaurant and/or the supermarket deli counter, take heart,...