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	<description>Regina Schrambling in New York, traveling and writing about food</description>
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		<title>No pastel sacks for bridesmaids</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/05/no-pastel-sacks-for-bridesmaids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 19:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[my biggest fan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with pie instead of cake, one of the best parts of the weekend was chatting over cheese with an uncle of the bride, in from Grand Forks, N.D., home of the world’s most infamous Olive Garden. My consort is the real reporter in this relationship, so he of course had to ask what someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Constraints make creativity possible&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/05/constraints-make-creativity-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 01:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hubris]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the foodiest of campaigns slogs on, it was rather rich to see the wearer of magic underwear strutting into a firehouse with Rudy 9/11 bearing boxes of not-even-good pizza for a photo stunt. Given NY fireguys’ reputation as great cooks, wasn’t that the equivalent of carrying coals to Austin?]]></description>
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		<title>Once there were bars, now there are day-care centers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 01:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[egopedist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I see those left behind at the hometown paper are not happy about the consequences 30 years on of sitting by silently as the wingnuts came first for the air traffic controllers. Now they have a buried-the-lede video out trying to drum up sympathy that is totally undermined by two Travel developments. First the section [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those apple pies? Galettes.</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/04/those-apple-pies-galettes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[onward and downward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of “Dining” sections went unremarked while I was busy and away, but I did save a note or two. The Trotter reprise was a surprise mostly because they ran the same photo as the last time they put him under the microscope, as if there were no permanent digital microfiche. But everything you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lipstick on a diaper baby</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/lipstick-on-a-diaper-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[onward and downward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[petrified newsstand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, major “news” outlets continue to print “be afraid, be very afraid” stories about all the germs on supermarket shopping carts. Without ever noting what remain the most bacteria-loaded dangers outside the toilets in the store: dollar bills &#8212; from the bums’ poop-encrusted bums to your hands, with many unwashed fingers in between. As I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>60-Million Gourmet</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/60-million-gourmet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[petrified newsstand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks as if the fauxposé of cookbook “ghostwriters” is birthing zombies. The argument just won’t end. But I do wish the original had touched on a rather fascinating ethical issue: ghosts reviewing ghosts. Can you judge an “opus” fairly if you lost out on the gig as collaborator? And would your editor/readers ever be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flam. A. Sil.</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/flam-a-sil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[nutrition nuttiness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[panchito]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody could top Andy Borowitz’s Tweet observing that G.F.Y. Cheney had gotten a new heart while the Chimp was still awaiting a brain transplant. And probably no one can figure out why Panchito confessed to the condition his condition is in. As my consort asked: “He has gout? Why would I care?” As always, though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send the wine to the office, or lunch out?</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/send-the-wine-to-the-office-or-lunch-out/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/send-the-wine-to-the-office-or-lunch-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dido]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could swear I heard the top editor of the hometown paper give an interview saying journalism comes first there, but the very next day I went to a media event where the question of the day was: Which food section reads like Page 6? After two stints there, I really can’t imagine any other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of course the hoi polloi eat at Le Bernardin</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/of-course-the-hoi-polloi-eat-at-le-bernardin/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/of-course-the-hoi-polloi-eat-at-le-bernardin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[formerly arboreal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jgold wannabe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tin chefs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I changed my mind about the Heartland “reviewer” once she got her chance to go on “Dining With the Stars.” She dropped her dignity faster than you can say “I’ve got five columns to write” and jumped on a plane to New York with a flack in tow. I’m sure her employer was as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom mojitos</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/freedom-mojitos/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/freedom-mojitos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[formerly arboreal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also in my little getaway from the center of the universe, I had conversation after conversation about either newspapers as the new Titanics or how wrong it is that 60-somethings are getting shitcanned, with no possibility of ever finding a new job. Running through every discussion was my contention that the formerly arboreal media, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garnish with plastic foliage</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/garnish-with-plastic-foliage/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/garnish-with-plastic-foliage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dido]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, and relatedly, I don’t like to gloat but am very glad I did not line up with everyone else in the digital Shirley Jackson “Lottery” and start lobbing stones at the deadpan Dakotan who reviewed the new Olive Garden in town. I started to but then clicked over to her photo and didn’t think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog “dirt” or tournedos?</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/dog-%e2%80%9cdirt%e2%80%9d-or-tournedos/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2012/03/dog-%e2%80%9cdirt%e2%80%9d-or-tournedos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[birdcage liners]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And I shouldn’t mock, because I once had an ill-thought-out letter published in the birdcage liner for wingnuts, too. But the (unlinkable) one from a woman responding to a front-page story on wine at White Castle had me almost ROFL for the lack of self-awareness. If Mom was bringing rebottled vino to McD’s and Burger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baguettes of hier</title>
		<link>http://gastropoda.com/2012/02/baguettes-of-hier/</link>
		<comments>http://gastropoda.com/2012/02/baguettes-of-hier/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>regina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[processed crap]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if Taco Bell hasn’t misunderestimated the stupidity of the patron (lower-case, BTW, is not the tequila in the contract rider). “Live mas” sounds like what hillbillies who are not being raised by their grandparents have.]]></description>
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