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	<description>Regina Schrambling in New York, traveling and writing about food</description>
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		<title>Walk-ins</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2011/09/walk-ins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before Al Gore gave us access to all information all the time online, I used to keep a file of clippings on shootings in fast-food joints. I had editors who wanted features on the dangers of that processed crap, and I liked having documentation that some nut with genitalia issues can always do a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big in Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2011/05/big-in-lebanon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 22:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand the mixed reactions to news that Cuba is finally loosening its restaurant rules. It is bad to consider tourists first in a country with such serious shortages that people drink brewed ground peas as coffee. But that may be what prevents the country’s cuisine from disappearing. When my consort and I were there, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear the sprouts</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2011/01/fear-the-sprouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shouldn’t be surprised, considering how inured Americans are to ordure in their beef. But it says it all that a few people died from drinking Four Loko and the stuff was banned. Thirty thousand a year die from guns and loons are allowed to run out and buy more after a massacre. Maybe someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe one from the City of New Orleans</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2011/01/maybe-one-from-the-city-of-new-orleans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[land of the free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tin chefs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Meant to write this after my magical ride to/from Buffalo by train to avoid the cancer boxes and grope theatrics at the airports: Amtrak should rip a page from the airline playbooks and hire a celeb chef or two to “reinvent” its “cuisine.” Said celeb would not have to actually do anything, just show up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I thought iPads collected cooties</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2010/11/i-thought-ipads-collected-cooties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chimp crimes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have also been slow to catch on to why so many chefs are opening ambitious restaurants in airports, so I thank Andrew Sullivan for coming up with the perfect description of where you now have to spend hours before flying: police states with shopping. I’m so old I remember when the best you could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegan &amp; everything</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2010/08/vegan-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[land of the free]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrition nuttiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silliness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know we’re supposed to get all worked up that Chelsea Clinton spent money on a wedding when she could have fed Haiti for all time for the cost of her dress. The only thing that got to me was that the cake was gluten-free. I realize there are people who have real celiac disease. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But the Hanoi Hilton had no Food Network!</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2008/09/but-there-was-no-food-network-in-the-hanoi-hilton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[father time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land of the free]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess the wingnuts are right. We are now living in a world where up is down and recession is prosperity. How else to explain the realities that the Thai prime minister was ordered to resign for having a cooking show and one candidate for the leader of the Land of the Free is appearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five years after &#8220;Fat Land&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2008/08/five-years-after-fat-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[big food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat asses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice try on LA’s part in attempting to zone out obesity by banning new fast food outlets. Talk about a very slender finger in a mega-dike, when companies like Kraft are busily coming up with the edible equivalent of fat-injecting hypodermics. Did the world really need bagels pre-stuffed with cream cheese? So the poor Angelenos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only outlaws will have Whoppers</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2008/07/only-outlaws-will-have-whoppers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[big food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land of the free]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As scornful as I am of fast food, I still think Los Angeles is one taco over the line in proposing a ban on it. A Big Mac is no different from foie gras: Someone wants to eat it, this is a free country. And once they come for the chicken nuggets, where would it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Licensed to pick</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2008/05/licensed-to-pick/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2008/05/licensed-to-pick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 18:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[big food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coprophagy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land of the free]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No wonder schools in America now teach nothing but how to pass a test, though. If kids learned math, they would have to be diapered from cradle to Reaganhood, because the future really is the shitz. Just think about the fact that Burger Death recently settled its dispute with farmworkers in Florida by grudgingly agreeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counterfeiters, you say?</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2008/03/counterfeiters-you-say/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2008/03/counterfeiters-you-say/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[freedom food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land of the free]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course there’s ingredient abuse and then there’s ingredient abuse. I generally ignore the foie gras whack jobs outside Fairway, but next time I pass them I hope to be packing a few printouts of photos and stories on force-feeding at Guantanamo. It’s one thing to shove corn down the throat of an organism genetically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marshmallows toasting on the branding irons</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2007/12/marshmallows-toasting-on-the-branding-irons/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2007/12/marshmallows-toasting-on-the-branding-irons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chimpish lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land of the free]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A blogger at the Houston Chronicle who was allowed to scoop up some White House holiday crumbs had the right reaction to a significantly sugary creation at the media fete this year: What the holy hell was it? I would say that if it’s not a cry for help it must be evidence of torture. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An arm and a leg</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2007/11/an-arm-and-a-leg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chimpish lies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land of the free]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mission must really be accomplished for the too-rich-to-ever-spend-it-all in this country. Cafe Gray, I read in a paper that knows from gazillionaires, is charging $500 a head, grownup or human larva’s, for Thanksgiving dinner and distractions during the Macy’s parade. And those are the cheap seats &#8212; the 12-chair chef’s table in the kitchen that [...]]]></description>
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