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		<title>Magnolia Grill to Close</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2012/05/02/magnolia-grill-to-close-2/</link>
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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 [...]<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>Adult Gingerbread for the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love gingerbread.  It&#8217;s always been one of my favorite flavors, particularly when served warm with some soft cream.  It represents the essence of winter comfort food, not too sweet, with depths of flavor beyond most other desserts.  But that depth was sometimes illusory, as it was just a smack of molasses paired with a touch of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1982&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Review Roulette: Spartacus Restaurant</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/12/08/restaurant-review-roulette-spartacus-restaurant/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2010/12/08/restaurant-review-roulette-spartacus-restaurant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Durham]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OPA!!!  You know, I really like Greek food, but I rarely eat it.  The saganaki is always a treat for the family, you can&#8217;t go wrong with kabobs, and any cuisine that highlights lamb can&#8217;t be bad.  There&#8217;s lots of great olive oil and herbs I love and feta and more.  Why, oh, why do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1943&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Review Roulette: Pop&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/11/03/restaurant-review-roulette-pops/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2010/11/03/restaurant-review-roulette-pops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time ago, Pop&#8217;s was a really hip restaurant owned by hipsters, visited by hipsters, and all with a hipster attitude to match. The menu was fairly ordinary semi-upscale Italian, but the food was good. But that was indeed a LONG time ago. A lot has changed over the years. There&#8217;s no more attitude. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1908&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Kids and Food</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/08/10/my-kids-and-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you might think that my kids eat everything and anything put in front of them.  Not so.  Each of our four children has his or her idiosyncrasies,  things that are loved or loathed.  My oldest loves most food, but he hates legumes of any kind &#8212; except for roasted peanuts, perhaps.  He just can&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1776&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Review Roulette: Restaurant Eden</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/05/26/restaurant-review-roulette-restaurant-eden/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2010/05/26/restaurant-review-roulette-restaurant-eden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last week&#8217;s review of bu.ku, where I was quite confident of what Greg Cox was going to do, I return to unfamiliar territory of restaurants about which I know nothing.  This time, it&#8217;s Durham&#8217;s Restaurant Eden, which based on its name strives to be a gustatory paradise.  Restaurant Eden opened in the same location [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1664&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scratch Bakeshop to Open Next Week</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/05/25/scratch-bakeshop-to-open-next-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoebe Lawless, Durham&#8217;s baker extraordinaire, will be opening Scratch&#8217;s new bakeshop next week at 111 Orange Street in downtown Durham.  For those of you who do not regularly visit the Durham Farmer&#8217;s Market, Lawless is known for her fantastic pies, including chocolate sea salt, shaker lemon, and many savory varieties.  Of course, Phoebe&#8217;s donut muffins [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1659&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Review Roulette: Sitar Indian Cuisine</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/05/05/restaurant-review-roulette-sitar-indian-cuisine/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2010/05/05/restaurant-review-roulette-sitar-indian-cuisine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 21:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, Greg Cox is making it tough on me.  This week&#8217;s review is of Durham&#8217;s Sitar Indian Cuisine (formerly known as Sitar India Palace, as evidenced by its web address).  This is not a new restaurant, as Cox previously reviewed it in 1998.  If you look up that old review on Triangle.com, it appears that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1641&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Triangle Restaurants That Sound Like Sex Shops</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/04/07/triangle-restaurants-that-sound-like-sex-shops/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2010/04/07/triangle-restaurants-that-sound-like-sex-shops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a blatant rip-off of a recent piece in the Seattle Weekly, but I don&#8217;t give a damn.  Here are a few local restaurants that could be a sex shop if you didn&#8217;t know any better.  Sure, I may be making fun of some foreign language issues, but I&#8217;ll get over it if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1578&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Review Roulette: Sansui</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/04/07/restaurant-review-roulette-sansui/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2010/04/07/restaurant-review-roulette-sansui/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I started this silly game of guessing how many stars Greg Cox would give a restaurant, I&#8217;ve pretty much been on the money.  I&#8217;ve been spot on for the last three reviews, I missed by half a star for Mambo Italiano, and Mr. Cox surprised us all when he gave 618 Bistro a single, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1575&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Review Prognostication</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/02/17/restaurant-review-prognostication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Varmint</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start something really silly for the area.  Each week, the News &#38; Observer tells us in its Wednesday edition what restaurant will be reviewed on the following Friday.  Greg Cox&#8217;s review of Durham&#8217;s Guglhupf will be published on Friday, and it&#8217;s time for us to guess how many stars he&#8217;ll give it. As you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1520&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dine Out for Haiti</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2010/01/21/dine-out-for-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday and Monday, a number of Triangle-based restaurants will be donating 10% of their proceeds to two charities for the relief efforts in Haiti.  This effort was initiated on Facebook by local chefs and foodies, and as of the time of this post, there are 20 restaurants participating.  Here&#8217;s the list of confirmed restaurants: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1489&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big News at Fullsteam Brewery</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/12/16/big-news-at-fullsteam-brewery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever drink an Abita Amber?  Or a Turbodog?  How about a Purple Haze?  Well, those are all beers that my good buddy Brooks Hamaker formulated and brewed down in Abita Springs, Louisiana for the iconic Abita Brewing Company.  Brooks was with Abita at its inception and helped grow the brewery into the South&#8217;s leading producer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1448&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kudzu Beer</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/08/04/kudzu-beer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the folks at Fullsteam Brewery.  They&#8217;re not afraid to take chances, and they truly want to form novel connections between agriculture and beer.  They also aren&#8217;t afraid to let their southern side show, as evidenced by their beer that is designed to go with barbecue and a rhubarb-flavored ale.  This is really good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1260&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Triangle Top 50</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/07/08/the-triangle-top-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The News &#38; Observer&#8217;s Andrea Weigl has put together a list of the top 50 food items/icons in the Triangle, and boy, what a list it is!  And you know what?  There&#8217;s no way in hell I could have come close to doing such a great job.  Now mind you, there are a lot more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1218&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Customer Wins at Wine Authorities</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/06/16/the-customer-wins-at-wine-authorities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since they opened their Durham shop, owners Seth Gross  and Craig Heffley have persistently emailed me, trying to get me into Wine Authorities.  They&#8217;d tell me that had a spot available for one of their wine classes at no charge.  They&#8217;d let me know about how they could help me to remember which wines I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1190&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Triangle Restaurant Week Coming</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/04/29/triangle-restaurant-week-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second annual Triangle Restaurant Week will be held across the Triangle on May 11-17.  Restaurant Week has been a fixture in other cities for years, where restaurants offer a three-course menu for a low, fixed price.  For the Triangle event, lunch will cost $15 and dinner will be $25.  Many restaurants typically provide a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1118&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Chef to Help Open Eno Restaurant</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/04/13/oregon-chef-to-help-open-eno-restaurant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chef Marco Shaw of Portland&#8217;s Fife will soon be headed to North Carolina to help open Durham&#8217;s Eno Restaurant and Market.  Shaw has been a major leader in the farm-to-table movement in Oregon, and Eno&#8217;s relationship with Coon Rock Farms should be a natural fit here in the Triangle. I had the pleasure of &#8220;hosting&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=1094&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living Life to Its Fullest</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2008/12/09/living-life-to-its-fullest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most 59 year old men are starting to plan for their later years in life, for the time when they slow down, take on fewer responsibilities, and simplify. Mel Melton is no such man. Melton, chef and co-owner of Papa Mojo&#8217;s Roadhouse in Durham, is looking to go faster. To do more. To live life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=883&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eno Restaurant &amp; Market to Open in Durham</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2008/06/26/eno-restaurant-market-to-open-in-durham/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2008/06/26/eno-restaurant-market-to-open-in-durham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks behind Raleigh&#8217;s Zely &#38; Ritz have combined forces with local food enthusiast and bon vivant Jamie DeMent to open a new farm-to-table restaurant in Durham, Eno Restaurant &#38; Market.  Scheduled to open at the end of this year, Richard Holcomb and Sarig Agasi, will open in partnership with Holcomb’s Coon Rock Farm in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&#038;blog=1707199&#038;post=507&#038;subd=varmintbites&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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