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		<title>Would You Like Envy on the Side?</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/06/30/would-you-like-envy-on-the-side/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Chef Grant Achatz of Chicago&#8217;s Alinea has a great piece in this week&#8217;s The Atlantic, focusing on diners&#8217; envy of special dishes sent out by the kitchen.  In this case, the special dish wasn&#8217;t even any different than what the jilted diner received, it was just plated at the table rather than in the kitchen. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1207&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Poppin&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a huge fan of Locopops, and when I read Andrea Weigl&#8217;s recent story on ice pops, I decided it was time to make some myself.  It&#8217;s not that the $2 price tag of a Locopops is breaking the home bank, but I recognized that these frozen treats are fun to eat, easy to make, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1199&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Burger?</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/06/20/the-best-burger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
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I might have had the best burger in the Triangle tonight.  It was served very rare, with melted Swiss cheese and some amazingly meaty bacon.  The meat in the burger was coursely ground, perfectly seasoned, and extraordinarily beefy-flavored.  The burger had a nice crust on it, and I really don&#8217;t know how anyone could surpass [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1196&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=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&blog=1707199&post=1190&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ashley Christensen &#8212; Ingredient Maker</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/06/09/ashley-christensen-ingredient-maker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Ashley Christensen of Poole&#8217;s Downtown Diner.
No, not in the biblical or romantic sense, but anyone who has ever read this blog knows I&#8217;m one of her biggest fans.  Yes, she&#8217;s a good friend, and I probably wouldn&#8217;t say a bad thing about her even if there was a bad thing to say (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1177&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Still Can&#8217;t Eat Just One</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/06/01/i-still-cant-eat-just-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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There have to be 8 gazillion types of potato chips out there, and I like them all.  Even the faux chips of Pringles or Munchos.  I mean, it&#8217;s hard to go wrong with potatoes, fat and salt.  Sure, adding some extraneous flavoring is OK (although I might not really want to try [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1172&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Band Together &#8212; One More Time</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/28/band-together-one-more-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 18:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please buy a ticket to the Band Together concert on June 6 (how&#8217;s that for getting to the point?).  It will be a ton of fun, and if you do, I won&#8217;t do another post about the event (well, at least not until it&#8217;s over).
Tickets are only 20 bucks &#8212; and that gets you one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1167&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Knew Biscuits Are Bad For You, But . . .</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/26/i-knew-biscuits-are-bad-for-you-but/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/26/i-knew-biscuits-are-bad-for-you-but/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From failblog.org

Posted in General Tagged: Biscuits, failblog.org      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1163&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking Ban Now a Law</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/19/smoking-ban-now-a-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 20:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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With Governor Beverly Perdue&#8217;s signature today, Session Law 2009-27 prohibits smoking in restaurants and bars beginning on January 1, 2010.  To the North Carolina General Assembly and Governor Perdue, I thank you, my wife thanks you, and most importantly, my children thank you.  The fiction of a non-smoking sections, when they&#8217;re adjacent to the cloud [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1159&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Foodivist?</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/19/are-you-a-foodivist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you a foodivist?  I know a lot of foodivists, don&#8217;t you?  These are the people who care about where our food comes from.  They&#8217;re the ones who care about the use of pesticides and growth hormones.  They&#8217;re the ones like Michael Pollan or even Mark Bittman in his efforts to promote eating less meat [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1155&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crook&#8217;s Corner Cooking Class Added to Silent Auction Items</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/18/crooks-corner-cooking-class-added-to-silent-auction-items/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 07:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Smith, the Beard-nominated chef at the place where Southern cooking was re-born, Chapel Hill&#8217;s Crook&#8217;s Corner, has graciously donated a cooking class for 10 people for the Band Together silent auction on June 6.  The winner of this item and 9 of his or her friends will  cook in the restaurant&#8217;s kitchen on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1151&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Bet My Knives Are Sharper Than Yours</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/18/i-bet-my-knives-are-sharper-than-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 06:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chad Ward]]></category>
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I&#8217;m about to make a couple of guesses that I suspect are not far from reality.
First, I&#8217;m willing to bet that 99% of the homes in this country have kitchen knives that are not nearly as sharp as they could (or should) be.
Second, the person who invents a low-c0st, idiot-proof and simple mechanism to sharpen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1143&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J. Betski&#8217;s Open for Lunch!</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/15/j-betskis-open-for-lunch/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/15/j-betskis-open-for-lunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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I usually don&#8217;t report on items like this, but when I saw my friend Jedidiah&#8217;s report on New Raleigh, I had to go, &#8220;Hurrah&#8221; and post it here!
J. Betski&#8217;s, Raleigh&#8217;s gem of a Central/Eastern European restaurant, is now serving lunch Tuesday through Saturday.  This is huge news for me, as my wife doesn&#8217;t really care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1144&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foodie Experiences for Sale</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/14/foodie-experiences-for-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 14:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The response has been terrific to my plea for interesting food-related silent auction items.  Interested in cooking with Ashley Christensen?  You can do it.  Want Zely &#38; Ritz chef Sarig Agasi to cook you dinner in your home?  Done.   And how about harvesting vegetables with Herons&#8217; chef Scott Crawford, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1137&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Herons: New Chef, New Food, New Heart</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/07/herons-new-chef-new-food-new-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herons Restaurant in Cary&#8217;s Umstead Hotel has been a bit of an enigma since it opened a couple of years ago.  It&#8217;s one of my favorite dining rooms, with warm wood decor and the most comfortable seats around.  The service has always been top-notch and efficient, although sometimes a bit overzealous.  At one point I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1129&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Blog Code of Ethics</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/05/01/food-blog-code-of-ethics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 18:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A &#8220;Food Blog Code of Ethics&#8221; has been proposed, and before I begin my discussion of this concept, I want to say, &#8220;I&#8217;m all in.&#8221;
This Code has been developed by Brooke Burton and Leah Greenstein, the creators of the food blogs SpicySaltySweet.com and FoodWoolf.com.  The power of food bloggers is now unquestionable, which I can attest to based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1127&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Julie and Julia &#8212; The Movie</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/04/30/julie-and-julia-trailer-no-1-aol-video/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2009/04/30/julie-and-julia-trailer-no-1-aol-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, this is a first.  I&#8217;m talking about a major Hollywood movie that won&#8217;t be released until August.  But when I saw this trailer a few minutes ago, I said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to take Ryan to see this.&#8221;  Ryan is my 13 year old daughter, and after seeing Meryl Streep doing Julia Child, I want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1125&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=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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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&blog=1707199&post=1118&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gastronomic Items at a Musical Event</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/04/27/gastronomic-items-at-a-musical-event/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2009/04/27/gastronomic-items-at-a-musical-event/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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As my readers know, this blog is about food, and it is incredibly rare when I post something that isn&#8217;t about food.  I also try to avoid the politics of food, because I want my blog to be about fun.  Today&#8217;s entry certainly has some food-related aspects about it, but it&#8217;s not the primary purpose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1114&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sign of the Apocalypse: Domino&#8217;s Bread Bowl Pasta</title>
		<link>http://varmintbites.com/2009/04/24/sign-of-the-apocalypse-dominos-bread-bowl-pasta/</link>
		<comments>http://varmintbites.com/2009/04/24/sign-of-the-apocalypse-dominos-bread-bowl-pasta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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In the world of bad ideas made worse, I offer as Exhibit A Domino&#8217;s new &#8220;Bread Bowl Pasta.&#8221;  Holy crap.  I can just imagine the meeting where this idea came up.  &#8221;Imagine yourself eating a big plate of spaghetti and meatballs.  What do most people want with that?  No, not wine, BREAD!  We all know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=varmintbites.com&blog=1707199&post=1110&subd=varmintbites&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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