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		<title>Makrut Limes &#8211; aka &#8220;Kaffir&#8221; Limes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by David Monniaux …a bit of trivia, a discussion I go through with many cookbook editors as I try to massage our language: &#8220;Kaffir&#8221; was, historically, a word used in South Africa to refer to dark-skinned peoples. It differentiated the SE Asian limes grown in Indonesia (where the native Austronesian tribes had dark skin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year Sweet Rice Dumplings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lunar New Year, or Tet as my peeps call it, brings with it many favorite dishes. Fatty pork and sugar dominate the holiday table, harking back to a time when ingredients fat and sweet were much more difficult to obtain, precious to use, and delightfully rare to enjoy. While I can now buy a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Festivals: Street Food Actually on Streets and Sidewalks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These last two weekends in the Bay Area have been a celebration of the best and the biggest of food on the go. La Cocina and Eat Real both showed that there are indeed thousands of people willing to stand in long lines in the full heat of summer to try any tasty treat served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Crawfish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite culinary mash-ups of recent years is the Vietnamese-Chinese-Cajun crawfish boil served with rice or garlic noodles. Following the arc of families moving from Vietnam to New Orleans to Southern California to, finally, San Jose and San Francisco, mud bugs have taken a garlicky turn and shown up, of all places, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fry Bread and Indian Tacos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As California&#8217;s road trip season begins, it&#8217;s time to pull out that list of foods that are worth a detour or two. If you&#8217;re passing by or through tribal land, allow time in your day and space in your stomach for a stop at roadside stalls offering fry bread or, even better, Indian tacos. Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hungry for Change: FOOD, INC.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez, an outspoken leader on food safety and animal rights, hosted a special screening of the documentary, FOOD, INC. for a roomful of legislators in Sacramento. Thanks to a friend who works at the capitol, I was able to sneak in. It&#8217;d been a very long time since I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arepas: Homemade Flatbreads</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/05/25/arepas-homemade-flatbreads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ardent fans of homemade corn tortillas, papusas and pleasantly plump gorditas know that arepas belong in Latin America&#8217;s reigning family of corn-based flatbreads. A staple in Venezuela and Colombia, arepas fill the workaday cook&#8217;s most important need: foods that are easy to make and easy to use and never boring. Early recipes required only cornmeal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duc Loi Supermarket</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/04/28/duc-loi-supermarket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A shopper at Duc Loi Supermarket carefully selects large chunks of freshly fried chicharrones, while rendered lard begins solidifying on the counter nearby.&#160;&#160;&#160; For over twenty years, seven days a week, Howard and Amanda Ngo have sold fresh, affordable produce and a quirky blend of both Latin American and Asian ingredients at the heart of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event: Taste of Tamales By The Bay</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/04/13/event-taste-of-tamales-by-the-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slim as a finger or big as a fist, wrapped in papery corn husks or supple banana leaves, sweet as spring or spicy as summer &#8212; the humble tamal in all its forms and flavors has become the star of an annual fundraising event in San Francisco. Taste of Tamales By the Bay will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan Bread in Fremont&#8217;s Little Kabul</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/03/18/afghan-bread-in-fremonts-little-kabul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With winter&#8217;s pantry almost empty and the green promise of Persian New Year just days away, it was time for a trip to Fremont&#8217;s Little Kabul to stock up on Near/Middle/Far Eastern supplies. It&#8217;s a ritual now. Get up early on a Saturday. Clear out the back of the station wagon to make room for [...]]]></description>
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