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		<title>Dining for the Year of the Dragon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embarrassingly enough, I have long thought of Chinese New Year as the day when I head down to Chinatown, watch a dragon-festooned parade and then grab some Chinese food at whatever restaurant is the least crowded. That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s as far as my cultural knowledge and experiences extend regarding China&#8217;s most important holiday. That is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2012/01/20/dining-for-the-year-of-the-dragon/</link>
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		<title>The Simple Pleasures of Toast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At dinner last night with friends someone asked what my favorite thing to cook was. The group roared when I answered, quite sincerely, &#8220;Toast.&#8221; For years I&#8217;ve started my day with a crisp piece of whole grain toast slathered with organic Yum peanut butter and mixed berry preserves. It may be mindlessly easy but it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2012/01/13/the-simple-pleasures-of-toast/</link>
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		<title>Hot off the Presses! Waffles!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a recent holiday party I got pulled into a conversation about why Belgium is such a fantastic country to visit. According to the Belgium buffs, it possesses everything that anyone could ever desire &#8212; quaint cities, beautiful architecture, first rate art, few tourists and loads of excellent food including Trappist beer, fries, mussels and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2011/12/29/warm-wonderful-waffles/</link>
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		<title>A Few Good Cookbooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With everyone rushing about, searching for holiday gifts, I&#8217;d like to suggest a few outstanding cookbooks for your shopping lists. This year I&#8217;ve slipped into full Anglophile mode, with four of my seven recommended titles coming from British authors. Yet, no matter from what side of the Atlantic these cooks come, their books will make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2011/12/08/a-few-good-cookbooks/</link>
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		<title>Good Reads, Great Gifts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I confess &#8212; I&#8217;ve struggled with a lifelong addiction to books. You need only look at my overflowing bookshelves, desk, nightstand, coffee table . . . really any flat surface in my house and you will see the ridiculous number of books on which I&#8217;ve become hooked. Culinary narratives are invariably part of my stash. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2011/12/02/good-reads-great-gifts/</link>
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		<title>Cheers for the Cranberry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel sorry for the cranberry. Each holiday season it slides out of its tin can with a gelatinous plop. Just when it thinks, &#8220;I&#8217;m free to do something amazing culinarily,&#8221; someone grabs a spoon and turns it into a jellied, crimson mush. If it&#8217;s lucky, it might show up later in a wizened, albeit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2011/11/18/cheers-for-the-cranberry/</link>
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		<title>Taking Sides on Turkey Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether you host or are being hosted for Thanksgiving, you&#8217;ve probably begun mulling over your holiday menu. In some households, such as my parents&#8217;, you go over the list of what you had offered the previous year, toss out an item or two, and add in something new. You then start shopping, cooking and, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2011/11/11/taking-sides-on-turkey-day/</link>
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		<title>Time to Pull the Parsnips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The downside to be married to, or even knowing, a writer is that inevitably you get pulled into one of her stories. Three years ago that very thing happened to my husband. Not only did I mention him in an article about root vegetables but also did an editor make him the star of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2011/11/04/time-to-pull-the-parsnips/</link>
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		<title>Wickedly Wonderful Wassail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rainy days and crisp, fall nights can only mean one thing &#8212; it&#8217;s time to break out the wassail!  Derived from the Norse phrase &#8220;ves heill&#8221; or &#8220;be in good health,&#8221; wassail can be a toast to good health, the alcoholic drink with which one is toasted, or the festive event where drinking and toasting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2011/10/27/wickedly-wonderful-wassail/</link>
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		<title>Pity the Pumpkin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up, I had little respect for the pumpkin. Blame it on lack of exposure. It showed up once a year in my mother’s Thanksgiving pie and then quickly disappeared from our menus and my mind. If I did see it more than once, it was usually at Halloween. At that time it was carved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kathylhunt.com/blog/2011/10/21/pity-the-pumpkin/</link>
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