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		<title>Tipping in Restaurants</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2010/03/tipping-in-restaurants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon a blog post by a waitress with regular contributions to Slashfood over the past few days. After perusing the comments on that entry, I was inspired to read the entirety of Hanna&#8217;s &#8220;What Can I Get You Folks?&#8221; series along with most of the comments, and as a result I&#8217;ve been left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank God It Wasn&#8217;t the Gluten!</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2007/11/thank-god-it-wasnt-the-gluten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the difficulties I&#8217;d been experiencing trying to find things to fit my lifestyle that were also gluten-free, I managed to stick to it for a week before giving in to some bread that I had been craving. I&#8217;d been feeling great, actually, so I was afraid I had just undone all the work of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Gluten-Free</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2007/10/going-gluten-free/</link>
		<comments>http://liquidstar.org/2007/10/going-gluten-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading recently on the connections between IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome, something I was diagnosed with 15 years ago&#8211;quite a feat of a disease for a nine-year-old to even have to think about undertaking managing, let alone actually doing it) and lactose-intolerance, gluten-intolerance, and thyroid disease. A couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty Pleasure Sundays #1&#8211;On, Er, Monday</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2006/06/guilty-pleasure-sundays-1-on-er-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://liquidstar.org/2006/06/guilty-pleasure-sundays-1-on-er-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chocolate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guilty Pleasure Sundays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bakery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chocolate chips]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[la bonne boulangerie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well. I wound up working a double shift yesterday, so I actually wasn&#8217;t home at all to post for my first Guilty Pleasure Sundays, but I definitely did get to indulge in something absolutely guilt-ridden and pleasurable, oh my&#8230; Fudge-Topped Brownie One of the girls I work with over-heated a customer&#8217;s brownie yesterday, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fooding Project Concept</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2006/06/fooding-project-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://liquidstar.org/2006/06/fooding-project-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[No Photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aroma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[purposeful]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quickbread]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to wind up spending my summer working at the bakery the same way I spent the summer a couple of years ago working at Blockbuster: putting in 30 or so hours at a place where I&#8217;m, in all honesty, not-so-well-versed in the product. While I most definitely enjoy seeing movies, the combination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bread Overload</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2005/12/bread-overload/</link>
		<comments>http://liquidstar.org/2005/12/bread-overload/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, I've apparently had a need for sweet bread-type things this past week.  Last Wednesday, I made some sweet Indian roti, I made them again on Friday, and today I made Portuguese sweet muffins.]]></description>
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		<title>So There&#8217;s This Bag of Onions, See&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2005/12/so-theres-this-bag-of-onions-see/</link>
		<comments>http://liquidstar.org/2005/12/so-theres-this-bag-of-onions-see/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I was really feeling like chicken, and I still have quite a few onions left from the 5 pound bag I got on sale insanely cheap a few weeks ago, so I made them for dinner last night.]]></description>
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		<title>Yakimochi&#8230;Failure</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2005/11/yakimochifailure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japanese]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[adzuki beans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just attempted to make yakimochi like the one I had with <a href="http://www.roboppy.net/food/" target="_blank">Robyn</a> in the City a couple of weeks ago, and I failed miserably. X/]]></description>
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		<title>Fooding Adventures in the Village</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2005/11/fooding-adventures-in-the-village/</link>
		<comments>http://liquidstar.org/2005/11/fooding-adventures-in-the-village/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[amy's bread]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of going on a gastronomical quest with <a href="http://www.roboppy.net/food/" target="_blank">Robyn</a>!]]></description>
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		<title>Frosting-to-Cake Ideal Ratio</title>
		<link>http://liquidstar.org/2005/11/frosting-to-cake-ideal-ratio/</link>
		<comments>http://liquidstar.org/2005/11/frosting-to-cake-ideal-ratio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Musings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister baked a banana cakeling tonight, and amidst the sounds of mixing cream cheese and powdered sugar together into a frosting for it, we were discussing the amount to put on the cake when she was done.]]></description>
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