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		<title>Tribute to a Food Mentor and Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote a short piece for Walter Magazine about my dear friend, Steven Shaw, who passed away in April. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scott Crawford has left The Umstead Hotel and Spa and Herons restaurant to open up two new ventures in downtown Raleigh, Standard Foods and Nash Tavern. Pastry chef Daniel Benjamin is opening a new pastry shop, lucettegrace, also in downtown Raleigh. Steven Greene was named the Executive Chef of The Umstead today, and he&#8217;ll remain [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Most Successful Cookbook on My Shelves</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a fair number of cookbooks, but I&#8217;m by no means a collector. Compared to many of my friends, I have a relatively tiny collection, and that&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t use cookbooks that often. For the most part, cookbooks give me ideas. They help me come up with new dishes or combinations of ingredients. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cardamom Crumb Muffins</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 19:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Cardamom might be the most underappreciated spice out there. Sure, it&#8217;s expensive, but not, like, saffron expensive. And a lot of people think it&#8217;s this incredibly exotic, inaccessible Indian spice. Exotic? Perhaps. Inaccessible? Pshaw! It has the most amazing perfume, but not overpowering. I made these muffins following Dorie Greenspan&#8217;s recipe for allspice crumb muffins (from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walter &#8211; Places to Eat on Your Way to the Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 21:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was asked to write this piece at the last minute because a planned story had fallen through. The idea pitched to me was to write about restaurants worth a drive from Raleigh. I thought that focusing on places east of Raleigh would make the legwork more doable, as I visited these places over a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walter Magazine &#8212; Stanbury</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 21:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I wrote a profile on the founders of Raleigh&#8217;s Stanbury restaurant for Walter Magazine&#8217;s February 2014 edition. I love to write about people who are successful beyond their imaginations. &#160; http://www.waltermagazine.com/the-stanbury-four/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walter Magazine &#8211; Have a Figgy Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 21:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is a column I wrote for the December edition of Walter. It&#8217;s about my in-laws and their fig obsession. And their giving nature. &#160; http://www.waltermagazine.com/have-a-figgy-christmas/ &#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Miss Lonelycarts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 21:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This column was posted in October for Walter Magazine, but it&#8217;s not available online. [POST-SCRIPT] Shortly before Thanksgiving, I received a call from a lawyer I used to work with. He told me that his sister was Miss Lonelycarts, and that she had been fighting a battle with pancreatic cancer. She walked around the Harris [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chef Steven Greene &#8212; An Restaurant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 20:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to a profile piece I wrote about Steven Greene, easily one of the state&#8217;s most talented chefs. &#160; http://www.waltermagazine.com/asian-alchemy-steven-greene-cooks-it-up-at-an/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Soo Cafe&#8217; &#8212; Korean Fried Chicken</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 20:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a link to my first column for Walter Magazine, about Korean Fried Chicken &#8212; right here in Raleigh!!   http://www.waltermagazine.com/varmint-bites-back-its-so-good-at-soo/  ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Food Writing Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2014 20:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not reviving this blog. At least, not yet. However, since I&#8217;ve started to do a bit of food writing for a local magazine, I thought I&#8217;d post links to the stories here. I may occasionally share some thoughts here from time to time, but it will be very sporadic at best.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Magnolia Grill to Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 14:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just received and email from Karen Barker of Durham&#8217;s legendary Magnolia Grill. She and her husband, Ben Barker, both Beard award winners, will be closing the restaurant at the end of the month.  Here&#8217;s the email: Friends , Colleagues &#38; Professional Associates &#8211; Karen and I have had the extraordinary luxury of cooking together [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Help Ryan Go To Bolivia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post is for my daughter Ryan, who is going to Bolivia this summer for a month to volunteer, teaching English and coaching soccer, and is trying to raise some money to do so. I apologize if you are a reader of VarmintBites thinking this was a new blog post about food. For those of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Help Me Run Faster Than I&#8217;ve Ever Run Before</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about my issues with my weight. Well, it all came to a head last month when my blood work showed that I was technically diabetic. Yup, Type 2 diabetes. The fat man&#8217;s disease.  Granted, I had just barely crossed over the threshold of glucose levels to merit that diagnosis, but I had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My old college buddy, Scott Price, just wrote a great story for Vanity Fair about Barry Levinson&#8217;s movie, &#8220;Diner.&#8221; There were a handful of us at Chapel Hill, including Scott, who went to see Diner whenever we could &#8212; initially at the Carolina Theater, then at the Student Union. Although the title of the movie [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those of us who like to cook and eat can remember so many meals we&#8217;ve enjoyed, restaurants we&#8217;ve visited, tastes we&#8217;ve shared, dishes we&#8217;ve created. We remember meals with family and loved ones. We remember the roast chicken in Barcelona, the cheese steak in Philadelphia, the fish boil in Wisconsin, and the white beans in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<link>https://varmintbites.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/duck-fat-skillet-cornbread/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cornbread]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t grow up with cornbread, and most of the time, the stuff I taste is just OK. It&#8217;s usually too dry or too sweet or too anything. I feel like Goldilocks, because I could never find the cornbread that was just right. That changed a couple of years ago when my buddy Pableaux came [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mandolin &#8212; Coming to Raleigh</title>
		<link>https://varmintbites.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/mandolin-coming-to-raleigh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[chefs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Restaurants]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow. A new chef-driven restaurant is about to open in Raleigh, and I&#8217;m really excited by it. Mandolin is the name of Chef Sean Fowler&#8217;s establishment, located at the intersection of Oberlin and Fairview in Raleigh&#8217;s Five Points neighborhood. This is what I know about Mandolin: nothing. Well, I&#8217;ve seen their menu, which is Southern-inspired. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>My Weekend With the SFA</title>
		<link>https://varmintbites.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/my-weekend-with-the-sfa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I got back from the Southern Foodways Alliance&#8217;s annual Symposium, where the focus this year was on the &#8220;cultivated South.&#8221; And this is what I did: I hung out with a poet who knows how to spin verses on deviled eggs. I tasted the first olive oil produced east of the Mississippi in over a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chile-Chocolate Brownies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brownies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latino Cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Southern-Latino Table]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[My 10 year old daughter Clara has become quite the baker. She&#8217;s always surprising me with cookies, breads, muffins, and lately, even pies. But one of her favorite things to bake is also one of the easiest: brownies. She&#8217;s been making brownies for years, and she occasionally looks for a new variation on the tried [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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