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		<title>Thanksgiving Menu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written&#8211;too busy with the daily work. Here&#8217;s our menu this Thanksgiving. Recipes to come when I can confirm success: Gougeres with smoked salmon Winter salad with persimmons and cranberries Heritage breed turkey two ways: Black truffle roasted breast, braised legs and thighs Wild mushroom bread pudding Homemade rustic bread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mediterranean journeys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a new book a couple weeks ago, A Mediterranean Feast, by Clifford Wright. It&#8217;s a combination history/cook book, and I can&#8217;t put it down. It traces the history of food through the Mediterranean. I&#8217;ve seen a number of other &#8220;cook the book&#8221; Web sites and I&#8217;m considering undertaking this one as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Brining</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a joke that Cook&#8217;s Illustrated should actually be called &#8220;Brining Illustrated&#8221; because they are such evangelists of this technique for preparing poultry. I am an apostle myself. Here is my brining recipe, adapted from their original. But, first, a few other thoughts on brining. Brining bags I was shocked (SHOCKED!) to find brining bags [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=141</link>
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		<title>Vegetarian Thanksgiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only vegetarian coming to our Thanksgiving dinner is the turkey. But I have received several requests from friends for vegetarian recipes. Many of the food magazines and food sections of newspapers are coming up with their own collections, so I am going to post them here. I can&#8217;t vouch for any of these, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=139</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some foodies consider Thanksgiving what New Year&#8217;s Eve is to experienced drinkers&#8211;amateur night. Butterball has run a Turkey Hotline since 1981 and receives about 200,000 calls each holiday season. We don&#8217;t host Thanksgiving every year, but this is the year that we&#8217;re on. It will be a small gathering (seven adults, one child), so easily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Cozinha Portuguesa a success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judging from the bursts of laughter in the dining room (including the conspiracy of the women at the table to go to Las Vegas for the weekend, and chef&#8217;s need to drive a guest home) last night&#8217;s Cozinha Portuguesa was a great success. Special thanks to guest GA, who was kind enough to bring both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=132</link>
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		<title>Portuguese Sweet Bread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I would anxiously sit through the long Mass on Easter Sunday, fidgety in my itchy lacy Easter dress. And my mind was focused on one thing: Portuguese sweet bread (massa sovada, which means leavened bread). Typically my mother (and every Portuguese woman we knew) would make vast quantities of it and distribute it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=93</link>
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		<title>Chemical Warfare: bhut jolokia added to India&#8217;s arsenal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Indian government will use the bhut jolokia, or &#8220;ghost chili,” which holds the Guinness World Record for hottest spice, to make tear gas hand grenades in the fight against terrorism. The nontoxic weapon can be used to choke terrorists or force them out of their hideouts, defense officials explained. Read the story in the Christian Science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=95</link>
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		<title>To wit: love letter to Lisbon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to prove a point&#8230;an article in the San Francisco Chronicle: Lisbon: Immovable city now irresistable force]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=91</link>
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		<title>Food Celebrity (emphasize on celebrity)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To demonstrate the saying that &#8220;celebrity breeds celebrity&#8221;, an article is this weekend&#8217;s The New  York Times demonstrates everything I hate about the phenomenon of food celebrity. Honestly, there&#8217;s hardly one of those people in the article I&#8217;d want to spend the afternoon with. I&#8217;ll admit I would love to do some kind of food-travel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tavolavila.com/?p=86</link>
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