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		<title>Walnut Season Arrives (And a recipe for Shiitake and Wild Black Walnut &#8220;Tartare&#8221;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up in central Ohio, school began right after Labor Day.  This was advantageous compared to today’s August starts not just because of the longer summer break, but because we would have scads of black walnuts to hurl at each other as we walked to school that first morning.
They littered the ground [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One winery from two vineyards &#124;&#124; Ladera Winery and a Stuffed Pork Loin Recipe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With autumn on the horizon, I always begin daydreaming about big, luscious, weighty reds that are emblematic of the cool, misty evenings of October with all the leaves on the ground. I yearn for the crackling fireplace, sweetie by my side, dog at my feet, as we ponder the intricacies of a carefully crafted California [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=247</link>
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		<title>Eggs Got You Scared? Here’s the Scoop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What annoys me about the coverage of the current egg recall is that it almost always says, “traced to an Iowa farm.” But, proud as I am of my home state, it’s not misguided regionalism that makes me take offense at this statement. It’s the use of the word “farm.”

Wright County Egg and the rest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=244</link>
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		<title>Terroir, &#8216;the very soul of the wine&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is perhaps no more confusing and contested word in the world of wine than &#8220;terroir&#8221; (pronounced &#8220;tare-WAHR&#8221;). This is probably because there is no direct translation from the French; no one word in English that means exactly the same thing.
Terroir is, quite simply, the totality of a wine&#38;apos;s origin. It is the term for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=242</link>
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		<title>Basil Abundance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer in Iowa always brings the same delightful dilemma &#8211; what to do with all that basil.
Few herbs are as surrounded by mythology and folklore as basil. Its origins are debated, but most seem to think it came from India where besides its innumerable culinary uses, a devout Hindu has a leaf of basil placed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Table Wine: See what real hard cider is all about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I regaled you with the true story of John Chapman, a.k.a. Johnny Appleseed, and his actual motives as more of a land speculator and hard cider maker than the happy-go-lucky wandering environmentalist we watched in filmstrips and Disney-animated cartoons in elementary school. He was a success because for many years in pre- [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=233</link>
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		<title>Thrill o&#8217;the Grill: Wrap It Up!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for an easy way to impress your guests at you backyard grill, here’s a simple trick that’s sure to make your favorite salmon fans drool: wrap it in banana leaves.
A classic method in tropical climes for centuries, this method is still relatively unknown in the States, but we are familiar with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Paella: From Tradition to Simplicity</title>
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Perhaps no dish conjures up more images of Spain than paella. Steeped  in history and distinctive spices, to prepare this dish is to summon  the soul of Spain and the spirit of her people.
For the uninitiated, paella (pronounced  “pie-AY-ya”) is kind of a rice casserole, traditionally prepared in a  special kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=216</link>
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		<title>Dine Out for the Gulf Coast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We shake our heads in astonishment at the level of the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. We want to help, but don&#8217;t know how. Seems no one has the answers, least of all BP, who continues to whitewash the beaches in advance of the arrival of Anderson Cooper or President Obama.
Ironically the New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=210</link>
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		<title>The Secret of True &#8216;Cue &#124;&#124; Nourish Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No type of cooking inspires as much passion, competition, obsession,  and plain old American hometown pride as barbecue. There are local,  regional, and national ‘cue contests that bring together hundreds of  pathologically devoted cooks and thousands of BBQ-scarfing chowhounds to  debate about which wood to use and to lie about their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kurtfriese.com/?p=206</link>
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