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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 - Karen and I have had the extraordinary luxury of cooking together [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2137&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></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;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2126&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help Me Run Faster Than I’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;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2123&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite Food Movie That’s Not About Food</title>
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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;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2119&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Meal I Ever Cooked</title>
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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 Barcelona, the cheese steak in Philadelphia, the fish boil in Wisconsin, and the white beans in Florence. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2114&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duck Fat Skillet Cornbread</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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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;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2111&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mandolin — Coming to Raleigh</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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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;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2107&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Weekend With the SFA</title>
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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;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2105&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></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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		<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;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2085&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taco Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the third year in a row I&#8217;m throwing my own Tacos and Tequila birthday party on the 25th. This old man is turning 48, and  there&#8217;s nothing I like doing more than cooking for friends and family. I typically make four different types of fillings for soft tacos, a red meat, a poultry, a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2101&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Fleer — Rock Star — Stir the Pot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that VarmintBites has turned into nothing more than a means to publicize fundraisers, but when one is on the Board of Directors of two different organizations having food-related fundraisers, well, you can understand. So, this Sunday and Monday we&#8217;re having another Stir the Pot, those fantastic events hosted by Ashley Christensen to benefit [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2099&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Amazing Event for an Amazing Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You like Herons restaurant in the Umstead, don&#8217;t you? And you love the Shimmer Wall, Marbles Museum and the cool ring sculpture on the lawn behind the North Carolina Museum of Art, right (it&#8217;s called Gyre, for what it&#8217;s worth)? Well, what would you think about an event where that particular artist, Raleigh&#8217;s own Thomas [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2094&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that I really like about this blog is that I&#8217;ve been able to keep it about food &#8212; with maybe one exception &#8212; since I started it years ago.  I haven&#8217;t ventured into music or literature or any of the arts. I haven&#8217;t discussed politics. But one of the limitations of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2082&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help Stir That Pot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, admit it. Ashley Christensen is a rock star. Not just Raleigh&#8217;s rock star, but she has national attention now. We&#8217;re just lucky to have her here. So when Ashley Christensen supports a cause, like she does with her Stir the Pot events for the Southern Foodways Alliance, it must mean a lot to her. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2080&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I wanted to make sure I posted photos of the three other types of tomatoes I&#8217;m growing. The big red one (it&#8217;s actually very pink in real life) is a Missouri Pink Love Apple. I haven&#8217;t tasted it yet. The small red one (also really pink) is the Pearly Pink. And the big-ass yellow [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2077&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look, Mom, look at my cantaloupe! I grew it all by myself! Aren&#8217;t you proud? Yes, I do feel like a little kid with this garden, showing it off to the handful of readers who&#8217;ve stuck with this blog. I get giddy, but darn it, this has been fun.  And I now frequently get asked, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2073&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got tomatoes. A buttload of tomatoes. Every day that I walk behind the house to the garden, I discover at least a dozen tomatoes ready for picking. After popping a couple of cherry tomatoes in my mouth, straight off the vine, I take the rest inside and wonder how lucky I am. My friend [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2069&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 12:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last garden update was three weeks ago, and a fair amount has happened. My tomatoes are about to explode. I&#8217;ve got dozens, if not hundreds, of tomatoes on the vines. I suspect I should have thinned out the suckers a bit more than I did, but I&#8217;ll be fine. I&#8217;ve eaten three relatively small [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2054&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked my first zucchini on Tuesday, and when I got home at 9:30 last night, after a long day at work, I was just a little bit hungry. Just enough to cut up the zucchini, sauté it in some olive oil, add some fresh basil, a splash of lemon and sea salt. It was perfect. I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2047&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, have I ever learned about gardening in the past few weeks. I&#8217;ve learned that you can leave your garden for a holiday weekend and come home to a prairie. The lesson from that is one should put down weed barriers wherever the crops are not planted. It took me over three hours (and several [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=2043&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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