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Byline: MARK VAUGHN Brett Payne is a professional chef, catering fancy dinners and mixing up tasty concoctions for various celebrities whose names you know. He started cooking in his native Australia, then moved to England to garner experience (which, we realize, sounds like moving to Germany to hone stand-up comic skills).

Payne now lives in Northern California, and the chef stuff is only part time. His full-time obsession and growing business is cooking up horsepower, particularly through the use of turbochargers. Payne's company, Forced Fed (leave it to a chef to come up ...

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