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		<title>fool&#8217;s gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Steinbeck&#8217;s The Grapes of Wrath, young Winfield gets mocked for thinking fool&#8217;s gold the real thing.
Having been on the road for 6 weeks, I&#8217;ve come to a similar conclusion about restaurant food: pretty as it is, in the long run it leaves me dissatisfied.

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		<title>watermelon raita</title>
		<link>http://freshcrackedpepper.com/2009/06/21/watermelon-raita/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, a friend reminded me that every once in a while, creativity pays off. In a world where ideas are cheap but increasingly void of meaning, I pounced on the opportunity to win some cash for an hour spent experimenting with a large melon. Let me explain.

It happened in the blink of an eye. While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freshcrackedpepper.com&blog=2685186&post=1206&subd=freshcrackedpepper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>road to home: part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve safely arrived in Eagle, Colorado, but before I get to the amazing food here, let me tie up the last few days of the Missouri leg. In my last post, I&#8217;d begun to wax poetic about how home cooking redeemed the area&#8217;s slew of chain restaurants.

The day after that amazing Indian meal, we found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freshcrackedpepper.com&blog=2685186&post=1184&subd=freshcrackedpepper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>road to home: part 1</title>
		<link>http://freshcrackedpepper.com/2009/06/07/road-to-home-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should have known better. For all my disappointment at Missouri&#8217;s impoverished restaurant landscape, all I had to do was go home. In our last few days in the area, we found our appetites again— simply by following our noses down driveways and through front doors.

This week made up for all the bland burritos, dishwater coffee, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freshcrackedpepper.com&blog=2685186&post=1165&subd=freshcrackedpepper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>breakfast saves</title>
		<link>http://freshcrackedpepper.com/2009/05/24/breakfast-saves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the &#8220;buckle of the Bible belt,&#8221; touting food as the harbinger of salvation could be seen as sacrilege. After a five-day string of meals I&#8217;d plot somewhere between barely edible and &#8220;for sustenance only,&#8221; Gailey&#8217;s Breakfast Cafe brought praise to my lips.

The historical downtown drug-store cafe turned hip brunch join came to our rescue [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freshcrackedpepper.com&blog=2685186&post=1158&subd=freshcrackedpepper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>road food</title>
		<link>http://freshcrackedpepper.com/2009/05/23/road-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 17:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A warm —read: stifling — foodie greeting from Nixa, Missouri, land of chain restaurants, strip-malls and &#8220;Authentic Mexican&#8221; food. The quotes around that last one are meant to hint at the painful truth that here, we&#8217;ve found the exact opposite. This is Cielito Lindo, the best I&#8217;ve had so far but still barely passable:

I&#8217;m sad to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freshcrackedpepper.com&blog=2685186&post=1150&subd=freshcrackedpepper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>one lunch</title>
		<link>http://freshcrackedpepper.com/2009/05/14/one-lunch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Dostoyevsky&#8217;s Brothers Karamazov, there&#8217;s an entire chapter named after &#8220;One Onion.&#8221; In it, the ubiquitous allium becomes a symbol for generosity, goodness, and salvation.
Recently, one lunch blew open some big questions in my own life. Perhaps not as weighty as the ones Dostoyevsky&#8217;s 19th century characters posed, but big enough for me.
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		<title>Restaurant Review: Hazelnut Kitchen</title>
		<link>http://freshcrackedpepper.com/2009/05/11/restaurant-review-hazelnut-kitchen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 05:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a spoiled child. Mark&#8217;s parents arrived on Wednesday, and as per our usual custom with them, food and wine co-starred in our little four-person show. They leave tomorrow, and I can confidently say that we&#8217;ve sipped, nibbled, and chomped our way through a good deal of the Syracuse area.
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		<title>cool food for warm days</title>
		<link>http://freshcrackedpepper.com/2009/05/04/cool-food-for-warm-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 21:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the winter months, I dream of warm food. There are afternoon lattes, tea, and hot chocolate, greedily assembled as my cheeks thaw out from the wind-whipped walk home. There are soups and stews simmering away on the stove. There are filling one-pot meals, spicy burritos, and steamy risottos.

And then suddenly, out comes the sun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freshcrackedpepper.com&blog=2685186&post=1116&subd=freshcrackedpepper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>sunburns and sandwiches</title>
		<link>http://freshcrackedpepper.com/2009/04/28/sunburns-and-sandwiches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer hit Syracuse last weekend with the impetuosity of a season long-forgotten. Blazing down during a Sunday bike ride, it left its pink hand print squarely between my shoulders. Yesterday it reached 30°C (87°F) and today the mercury is still up in the high 20°s (70°s). Our apartment, in good second-floor sun-drenched form, is responding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freshcrackedpepper.com&blog=2685186&post=1101&subd=freshcrackedpepper&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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