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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>Taking Time in the Kitchen: Down to the Brown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday cooking means taking lots of shortcuts. For the most flavor with the shortest amount of time in the kitchen, especially when you&#8217;ve splurged or gone out of your way to buy good ingredients, it&#8217;s a delicate balance between paying attention to the details and just trying to get dinner on the table. We&#8217;ve all [...]]]></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>Arepas: Homemade Flatbreads</title>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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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>Scrambling Spring Eggs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, hens took a break during the winter, waiting for the arrival of longer, warmers days to lay their eggs and hatch their chicks. Although we&#8217;ve entrapped them in an endless summer of egg production, it&#8217;s good to stop occasionally and remember that so many basic foods, especially the ones we take [...]]]></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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		<title>Nuts for Trader Joe&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/02/16/nuts-for-trader-joes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As someone who&#8217;s been kicked out of countless grocery stores, camera in hand, I especially enjoyed the contraband video that Carl Willat, a San Francisco-based animation director, recorded with his humble Treo. Although the chain has stopped carrying some of my favorite products &#8212; oh sweet, spicy ginger gelato, where did you go?! &#8212; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Comfort: Pork Sparerib &amp; Mustard Green Soup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when&#160;&#160;it&#8217;s cold outside and you&#8217;re bundled in bed incapable of cooking and yet you need some food that feels and tastes homemade, but your mom is maybe 1,500 hundred miles away, it&#8217;s time for the smart shortcuts. Sure, the first can of chicken and stars brings back fond memories, but by the tenth or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepping at Restaurant Picco</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2008/09/15/prepping-at-restaurant-picco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, during one of those gorgeously sunny weeks, a friend visiting from China (read: escaping from Beijing&#8217;s craziness) requested a fun outing that would include a meal highlighting local foods. The perfect side trip came to mind immediately. There&#8217;s no better way to take in the Bay than on a leisurely ferry ride. And [...]]]></description>
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