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		<title>Max, Wally and Lampredotto</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[C’era una volta. . . once upon a time. . . Max (Massimo Melani) met Wally (Walter Sanders) in Firenze. Here’s the story in their own words. Massimo First, a few words about the Leather School: Workshop, Laboratory and Show Room of the finest leather goods situated in the old Franciscan monastery of the Santa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offering of the Angels</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine possessing so many gems that there’s no more room in your jewelry case for a flawless gold and radiant-cut diamond necklace. You’re forced to stow it in a box in the attic. No space, either, for the marquise-cut ruby bracelet. Upstairs it goes. Those pear-shaped sapphire ear drops set in silver filigree? No spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botticelli Comes to Bucks County, PA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So how, you might ask, did the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA manage to snag &#8220;Offering of the Angels,&#8221;one of the most prestigious exhibitions of the new millennium? The triumph involves the Association of Museums Conference, an empty bus seat, and a fortuitous question. Bruce Katsiff, the Director/CEO of the Michener related at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IACP Culinary Expo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
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