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		<title>Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/03/05/absinthe-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Absinthe at the St. Regis lobby bar (photo by Hiro Sone)

If you&#8217;ve caught absinthe fever, another place to try the infamous spirit is at the St. Regis Hotel&#8217;s lobby bar.
The bar has created a new cocktail using the once-again legal spirit. The &#8220;Ame Tremor&#8221; is a potent mix of Chateau de Briat Armagnac and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nancy Silverton’s Awesome Butterscotch Budino</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/03/03/nancy-silvertons-awesome-butterscotch-budino/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Baking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a regular reader of BellyFull (why, but of course, you are!), you&#8217;ve no doubt read my musings, rhapsodizing about the food at Los Angeles&#8217; Pizzeria Mozza.
Of course, the pizza can&#8217;t be beat. But the desserts are nothing to sneeze at, either. After all, the restaurant is co-owned by Chef Nancy Silverton, who started La Brea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Brands of Alfalfa Sprouts May Be Contaminated with Salmonella</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/29/three-brands-of-alfalfa-sprouts-may-be-contaminated-with-salmonella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The California Department of Public Health is warning consumers not to eat certain brands of alfalfa sprouts that may be contaminated with Salmonella, which may cause serious illness.
Salad Cosmo USA Corp. of Dixon, Calif., has recalled Salad Cosmo Alfalfa Sprouts distributed to retail stores, including SaveMart Supermarket and wholesale distributors throughout California and Washington.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Cannabis To Cheese</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/27/from-cannabis-to-cheese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How about a nice smoked Gouda? And I mean &#8212; ahem &#8212; smoked.
It seems that the co-founder of Monroe, Wisconsin&#8217;s Roth Kase USA artisan cheese company has a rather interesting new purchase on his hands. Fermo Jaeckle won a recent auction bid for a cave that&#8217;s about 40 miles from Nashville, Tennessee. 
The cave was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soup-er Recipes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/25/soup-er-recipes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
There&#8217;s nothing like a warm bowl of soup to beat a chilly night. In the cute, new &#8220;Mollie Katzen&#8217;s Recipes: Soups&#8221; (Ten Speed Press, $14.95), you&#8217;ll find 50 soup recipes in a fun, compact easel format for easy flipping.
Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the original &#8220;&#8221;Moosewood Cookbook.&#8221; The soup recipes are drawn from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do You Get When You Cross “Top Chef” with “The Apprentice”?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/19/what-do-you-get-when-you-cross-top-chef-with-the-apprentice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You get &#8220;The Last Restaurant Standing,&#8221; which airs on BBC America on Tuesdays at 9 p.m.
In this culinary competition, nine couples (husband-wife, mother-son, twin sisters, etc.) vie for a chance to compete for their own bonafide restaurant and the backing of Raymond Blanc, renowned British chef with a two-star Michelin restaurant.
Each couple has been given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel With Anthony Bourdain</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/18/travel-with-anthony-bourdain/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/18/travel-with-anthony-bourdain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Admit it: You tune into the Travel Channel&#8217;s &#8220;No Reservations&#8221; show, and long to chow down on a curry dog in Berlin, giant soup dumplings in Shanghai, the beating heart of a cobra in Vietnam, and an absolutely, positively unmentionable part of a warthog in Namibia. If you&#8217;re sincerely adventurous, here&#8217;s your chance to prove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate Bars That Help Small-Scale Farmers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/14/chocolate-bars-that-help-small-scale-farmers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/14/chocolate-bars-that-help-small-scale-farmers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Valentine&#8217;s Day, you&#8217;re more apt perhaps to think of eating good than doing good. With Alter Eco Fair Trade chocolate bars, you can do both.
Alter Eco has come out with five new bars. All are organic and Fair Trade. Buying these bars, the company says, will help 800 small-scale farmers in Bolivia and 400 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Recchiuti Apple A Day Keeps You Very Happy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/11/a-recchiuti-apple-a-day-keeps-you-very-happy/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/11/a-recchiuti-apple-a-day-keeps-you-very-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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Michael Recchiuti of San Francisco makes some very fine chocolates indeed. We recently tried one of his best sellers: Key Lime Apples.
We&#8217;ll use our patented scale of 1 to 10 lip-smackers, with 1 being the “Bleh, save your money’’ far end of the spectrum; 5 being the “I’m not sure I’d buy it, but if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fruit and Veggies To Bring You Good Fortune and Long Life</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/07/fruit-and-veggies-to-bring-you-good-fortune-and-long-life/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/food/2008/02/07/fruit-and-veggies-to-bring-you-good-fortune-and-long-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jung</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today begins the first day of the Lunar New Year. To ensure the Year of the Rat is an auspicious one, be sure to eat the proper fruits and vegetables. After all, they&#8217;re good for you, too.
To help you choose the proper produce for your celebration, Bay Area produce buyer Greg McDonald has some helpful [...]]]></description>
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