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		<title>Interactive Dinner Party — 2009 Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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As I wrote last year, I host an interactive dinner party for my law firm each summer.  The party has several purposes: first, it&#8217;s a party, and we&#8217;re supposed to have fun.  Second, it&#8217;s what we call a &#8220;summer clerk event,&#8221; meaning that it is designed to allow us lawyers to interact socially with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1247&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wood-Fired Paella</title>
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I&#8217;ve eaten a fair amount of paella in my time, and frankly, I never really got the appeal.  I mean it&#8217;s rice, protein and vegetables, all with a slight saffron flavor.  It&#8217;s usually dry, insipid, and quite frankly, not worth the trouble to make.  I&#8217;ve had two paella pans, or paellera (and correct my Spanish, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1233&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capitol Q</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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My friend Joe York, filmmaker extraordinaire, has put together a fantastic film on one of North Carolina&#8217;s barbecue gems, the Skylight Inn in Ayden.  The Skylight is a special place, a purist&#8217;s nirvana, where the crunchy skin is cut into the meat, and there are only three foods on the menu &#8212; barbecue, slaw, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1227&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: Restaurant Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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As many of you know, I&#8217;m a lawyer.  I have absolutely no experience working in a restaurant at any capacity.  I&#8217;ve not chopped a single vegetable, fired a pan, plated a dish or anything else in the kitchen.  I&#8217;ve never taken an order, filled a water glass, or bussed a table.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1223&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Triangle Top 50</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The News &#38; Observer&#8217;s Andrea Weigl has put together a list of the top 50 food items/icons in the Triangle, and boy, what a list it is!  And you know what?  There&#8217;s no way in hell I could have come close to doing such a great job.  Now mind you, there are a lot more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1218&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking Camp for Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to teach my kids how to cook and to make it fun.  I&#8217;m not always as patient as I should be, but for the most part, each of my four children love to eat, they&#8217;re happy and relaxed in the kitchen, and they know how to make a lot of the basics.  They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1213&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would You Like Envy on the Side?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Chef Grant Achatz of Chicago&#8217;s Alinea has a great piece in this week&#8217;s The Atlantic, focusing on diners&#8217; envy of special dishes sent out by the kitchen.  In this case, the special dish wasn&#8217;t even any different than what the jilted diner received, it was just plated at the table rather than in the kitchen. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1207&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Poppin’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of Locopops, and when I read Andrea Weigl&#8217;s recent story on ice pops, I decided it was time to make some myself.  It&#8217;s not that the $2 price tag of a Locopops is breaking the home bank, but I recognized that these frozen treats are fun to eat, easy to make, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1199&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Burger?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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I might have had the best burger in the Triangle tonight.  It was served very rare, with melted Swiss cheese and some amazingly meaty bacon.  The meat in the burger was coursely ground, perfectly seasoned, and extraordinarily beefy-flavored.  The burger had a nice crust on it, and I really don&#8217;t know how anyone could surpass [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1196&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Customer Wins at Wine Authorities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since they opened their Durham shop, owners Seth Gross  and Craig Heffley have persistently emailed me, trying to get me into Wine Authorities.  They&#8217;d tell me that had a spot available for one of their wine classes at no charge.  They&#8217;d let me know about how they could help me to remember which wines I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1190&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ashley Christensen — Ingredient Maker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Ashley Christensen of Poole&#8217;s Downtown Diner.
No, not in the biblical or romantic sense, but anyone who has ever read this blog knows I&#8217;m one of her biggest fans.  Yes, she&#8217;s a good friend, and I probably wouldn&#8217;t say a bad thing about her even if there was a bad thing to say (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1177&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Still Can’t Eat Just One</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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There have to be 8 gazillion types of potato chips out there, and I like them all.  Even the faux chips of Pringles or Munchos.  I mean, it&#8217;s hard to go wrong with potatoes, fat and salt.  Sure, adding some extraneous flavoring is OK (although I might not really want to try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1172&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Band Together — One More Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please buy a ticket to the Band Together concert on June 6 (how&#8217;s that for getting to the point?).  It will be a ton of fun, and if you do, I won&#8217;t do another post about the event (well, at least not until it&#8217;s over).
Tickets are only 20 bucks &#8212; and that gets you one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1167&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Knew Biscuits Are Bad For You, But . . .</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From failblog.org

Posted in General Tagged: Biscuits, failblog.org      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1163&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking Ban Now a Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 20:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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With Governor Beverly Perdue&#8217;s signature today, Session Law 2009-27 prohibits smoking in restaurants and bars beginning on January 1, 2010.  To the North Carolina General Assembly and Governor Perdue, I thank you, my wife thanks you, and most importantly, my children thank you.  The fiction of a non-smoking sections, when they&#8217;re adjacent to the cloud [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1159&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Foodivist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a foodivist?  I know a lot of foodivists, don&#8217;t you?  These are the people who care about where our food comes from.  They&#8217;re the ones who care about the use of pesticides and growth hormones.  They&#8217;re the ones like Michael Pollan or even Mark Bittman in his efforts to promote eating less meat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1155&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crook’s Corner Cooking Class Added to Silent Auction Items</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 07:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Smith, the Beard-nominated chef at the place where Southern cooking was re-born, Chapel Hill&#8217;s Crook&#8217;s Corner, has graciously donated a cooking class for 10 people for the Band Together silent auction on June 6.  The winner of this item and 9 of his or her friends will  cook in the restaurant&#8217;s kitchen on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1151&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Bet My Knives Are Sharper Than Yours</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 06:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m about to make a couple of guesses that I suspect are not far from reality.
First, I&#8217;m willing to bet that 99% of the homes in this country have kitchen knives that are not nearly as sharp as they could (or should) be.
Second, the person who invents a low-c0st, idiot-proof and simple mechanism to sharpen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1143&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J. Betski’s Open for Lunch!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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I usually don&#8217;t report on items like this, but when I saw my friend Jedidiah&#8217;s report on New Raleigh, I had to go, &#8220;Hurrah&#8221; and post it here!
J. Betski&#8217;s, Raleigh&#8217;s gem of a Central/Eastern European restaurant, is now serving lunch Tuesday through Saturday.  This is huge news for me, as my wife doesn&#8217;t really care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1144&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foodie Experiences for Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 14:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The response has been terrific to my plea for interesting food-related silent auction items.  Interested in cooking with Ashley Christensen?  You can do it.  Want Zely &#38; Ritz chef Sarig Agasi to cook you dinner in your home?  Done.   And how about harvesting vegetables with Herons&#8217; chef Scott Crawford, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1137&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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