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iReporter Joshua Estrin has some pretty fancy friends, including Top Chef Masters contestant and MasterChef Judge Graham Elliot of Graham Elliot restaurant in Chicago. Elliot's dad - a Navy diver who sounds like the coolest guy ever, would add food coloring to bowls of pancake batter so the family could sit down to a rainbow feast. And it didn't stop there.

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