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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Jacu Bird Coffee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s better not knowing what you&#8217;re eating or drinking until after the fact.  Any gross or abnormal ingredients just might ruin the experience.  However, when you&#8217;re ordering a cup of coffee, you would naturally assume that you&#8217;re pretty safe, right?  Well, after a recent experience of mine in a favorite Parisian coffee shop, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1813&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Julia&#8217;s Frosting</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember meeting Julia Child once when I was growing up.  I can&#8217;t remember how old I was exactly, maybe seven or eight, but I do remember being impressed.  The line of people waiting to see her spread out onto the sidewalk of Cookworks &#8211; the first and only cooking supply store I knew growing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1685&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Un Apéritif Almost Perfect</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My two favorite meals in France are &#8220;brunch,&#8221; which deserves a post all to itself, and the famous &#8220;apéritif.&#8221;  I know what you&#8217;re thinking, an apéritif isn&#8217;t a meal! It&#8217;s a drink! &#8230;but there&#8217;s always food that comes along with an apéritif so in my opinion it counts as a meal, or at least a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1542&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melted Hearts of Chocolate with Tonka</title>
		<link>http://simmerandsip.com/2011/02/12/melted-hearts-of-chocolate-with-tonka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is impossible to separate food with emotions.  I first learned this when I read the novel Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel in which Tita&#8217;s fervent emotions become a part of her cooking and affect those around her.  I later experienced this with my first bite of a French coeur fondant au chocolat&#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1495&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wine and Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://simmerandsip.com/2011/02/06/wine-and-chocolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Valentine&#8217;s Day approaching, I decided to do a little experimenting with wine and chocolate.  After all, wine and chocolate are two of my favorite things, so I would have to be crazy to turn down such a great excuse to eat more chocolate and drink more wine.  But the other night, right as I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1489&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee: A Different Sort of &#8220;Grand Cru&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://simmerandsip.com/2011/01/31/coffee-a-different-sort-of-grand-cru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually when I write about &#8220;grand crus&#8221; I&#8217;m talking about wine, but this time I have something else on my agenda: coffee.  I recently stumbled across a café that just might serve the best coffee in Paris.  Well, at least that&#8217;s what Alain Ducasse and David Lebovitz seem to think&#8230; both of them regulars of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1477&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Searching for the Best Chocolate</title>
		<link>http://simmerandsip.com/2011/01/11/searching-for-the-best-chocolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new year&#8217;s resolution might seem little different than most, but it is based on two basic goals: First, to find the best chocolate producers in France. Second, to find the best wine pairing with chocolate, because I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that my two favorite things (wine and chocolate) must be consumed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1414&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fennel Risotto</title>
		<link>http://simmerandsip.com/2010/11/17/fennel-risotto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned how to make risotto while I was working in a little Italian restaurant in Australia (luckily the owner and chef was a petite Italian woman, because the kitchen was just about as big as my Parisian closet&#8230; tiny!) The owner, Laura, was passionate about Italian home cooking, art, and, most of all, conversing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1387&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Saturday Markets</title>
		<link>http://simmerandsip.com/2010/10/30/two-saturday-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 23:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;ve been spending most of my time in Paris lately, I did make it down to Blois this weekend to visit a &#8220;copine&#8221; (french for friend) who just had a beautiful baby boy.  While it was wonderful seeing my friends and old neighborhood, I will admit that I was equally excited about going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=simmerandsip.com&#038;blog=9142870&#038;post=1363&#038;subd=simmerandsip&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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