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And waves appeared to grow by several feet, with reports of swells or chops hitting 7 to 10 feet.

If you’re feeling adventurous, you can even add the baked strawberries to grilled chicken, pan-fried pork chops or seared duck, Laperruque recommended.

"We don't come from a tradition of great songwriters," says Mullen Jr. "We didn't have any of those blues chops, so we were starting from scratch, all of us."

And, unfortunately, when Tesfaye is acting outside the confines of a music video, his chops are unrefined and fairly laughable.

A former child prodigy on the mandolin, Hull opened the evening flexing her Berklee-trained chops in a series of lickety-split bluegrass numbers that got early arrivers whistling with approval.