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SEAN BROCK’S NEW COOKBOOK AND A FOXFIRE REISSUE SING IN HARMONY By Jonathan Miles Jacqueline Stofsick (2) Fans of Southern cooking do well to follow Sean Brock’s appetites, curiosities, and whims; almost always, something delicious this way comes. Whether he is rejuvenating Southern cuisine at the restaurants he’s helmed—most notably at Husk, which spread from Charleston, South Carolina, to three more cities—or leading a PBS camera crew to Senegal to explore the West African roots of Southern cooking, Brock has juggled a panoply of roles: chef, revivalist, archivist, farm-to-table evangelist, the Duane Allman of vegetables, the Alan Lomax of heirloom grains, a dispenser of pleasure and history in equal bites. Recently, Brock’s focus has narrowed—though the better word might be sharpened. For one, he got sober, selling…