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		<title>Sourdough English Muffins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They were pretty damn good, I must say. Toasting one right now&#8230;. Here&#8217;s a recipe, or as close as possible since I was free-styling it that morning. SOURDOUGH SPONGE The night before, take out of the fridge your sourdough starter (see my feature &#8220;Taming the Wild Yeast&#8220;). Transfer to a clean bowl and mix in [...]]]></description>
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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>Wok Rings and Electric Stoves</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2010/07/21/woks-hey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[S. writes: …how [does] one uses a wok in the contemporary kitchen (its called the science of the wok). I&#8217;m wondering, do you use a wok or a ring for your burner? I read a review on cooks illustrated that basically concluded that the wok doesn&#8217;t make sense on a standard (flat) kitchen burner. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year Sweet Rice Dumplings</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2010/02/27/lunar-new-year-sweet-rice-dumplings/</link>
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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>Saul&#8217;s Seltzer Saga — Save The Deli</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2010/02/26/sauls-seltzer-saga-%e2%80%93-save-the-deli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reading David Sax&#8217;s recent book, Save the Deli, or follow his blog or moan, as many do, about the general state of the Jewish delicatessen, then you know that it&#8217;s a pivotal time in this most hallowed bastion of comfort food. For years, locavores and vegetarians, calorie-counting suburbanites and couscous-loving Sephardim and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How did they ever manage this?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/10/15/how-did-they-ever-manage-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua writes: My dad just got back from Beijing. At one restaurant, they brought out a live fish in a bucket for inspection, and upon his OK returned 10 minutes later with this. The elongated cheese-it looking things all over the fish were some kind of fried dough and the fish meat, maybe, he couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homegrown: The 21st Century Family Farm</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/10/01/homegrown-the-21st-century-family-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a mile from the skyscrapers of downtown Pasadena lies a tiny plot of land that has become the heart of an urban homesteading movement. The raised beds of the Dervaes family farm cover 1/10 of an acre. Imagine the area from a football field&#8217;s goal line to the very first 10-yard mark, or if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Time in the Kitchen: Down to the Brown</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/09/19/taking-time-in-the-kitchen-down-to-the-brown/</link>
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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>Beyond Festivals: Street Food Actually on Streets and Sidewalks</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/09/03/beyond-festivals-street-food-actually-on-streets-and-sidewalks/</link>
		<comments>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/09/03/beyond-festivals-street-food-actually-on-streets-and-sidewalks/#comments</comments>
		<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>Rules of Thumb</title>
		<link>http://tidbits.wanderingspoon.com/2009/08/04/rules-of-thumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thy Tran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time, before Pyrex and Oxo, calculators and even cookbooks, when rules of thumb ruled the kitchen. My mother taught me my first one when I was six and still standing on a barstool to reach the kitchen faucet, the infamous and eerily accurate &#8220;one-knuckle&#8221; rule for cooking rice. Like all good R.O.T., [...]]]></description>
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