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		<title>Mardi Gras Crêpes (Recipe)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s Mardi Gras! While Halloween may be underplayed in France, Mardi Gras certainly isn’t. A tradition stemming largely from the Middle Ages, children and teenagers (and even some adults) giddily dress up in all kinds of colorful costumes for a day of festive revelry.  No trick-or-treating or candies for this celebration; instead, French tradition calls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant Review: L&#8217;Oga (Paris)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Valentine’s weekend, Paris’ most-popular restaurants are packed full of couples, literally cheek to cheek. Reservations are a must and, for the special occasion, most places propose a set menu with entrée, plat and déssert.  As our tradition goes, we hopped on the metro and stepped through the doors of one of the city’s well-liked, yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2010/02/restaurant-review-loga-paris/</link>
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		<title>Cozy Wine Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though I was hopeful for spring with my last post, this week’s on-and-off flurries of snow have officially confirmed that winter is not yet over. 
In fact, this has been the strangest, coldest winter I’ve experienced in Paris so far.  Today, alone, has been proof of divine indecision: one minute, unbelievably large snowflakes are floating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2010/02/cozy-wine-bar/</link>
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		<title>Growing Wild Asparagus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spring has (literally) sprung early in our apartment this year.
Meet Fergie, the wild asparagus plant that has been mesmerizing us for a few weeks now.
I had a good laugh when I walked in the door from work one evening and saw Sébastien holding a small terracotta pot sporting the most awkward, scrawny, spiky reincarnation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2010/02/growing-wild-asparagus/</link>
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		<title>Going to the Prefecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can’t have a blog on Paris without mentioning the infamous  Préfecture de Police. 
This is where one goes for a handful of administrative documents in France, and in a foreigner’s case, for your titre de séjour- the card that gives you permission to live in France and acts as your “identity card.”  Once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2010/01/going-to-the-prefecture/</link>
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		<title>January 20</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m back!  Just walked in the door and haven’t even taken my shoes off- soon as I take them off there will be a million other things to do- laundry, dinner, grading, hanging up the toilet paper holder (that we finally bought after six months), hanging up the bathroom mirror (same thing), blowing my nose, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2010/01/january-20/</link>
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		<title>Adventures in Tamarind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d already heard of &#8220;tamarind paste&#8221; plenty of times.  Until this week, though, I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to tell you exactly what it was, or even where to find it. 
Some exotic spice, no?  The one that giddily finds its way into Indian and Thai cookbooks; the one I&#8217;d always ignored.  Until my most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2009/11/adventures-in-tamarind/</link>
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		<title>Easy, Creamy Mushroom Tomato Sauce (Recipe)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love big projects, especially cooking projects- big messy ones where you have long cleaning sessions afterward. 
I, however, like most, don&#8217;t have endless hours each evening to spend concocting unknown dishes (nor do I always have the time to trek through Paris hunting down the various ingredients typically required of such ventures).  That&#8217;s why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2009/11/easy-creamy-mushroom-tomato-sauce-recipe/</link>
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		<title>Roasted Chestnuts (Recipe)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my posts about bourru and bernache, tradition has it that you eat roasted chestnuts with these young &#8220;wines&#8221; that show their faces only in the autumn.

There are two words for chestnut in French: marron and châtaigne. While we don&#8217;t seem to distinguish between the two in English, we certainly do in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2009/11/roasted-chestnuts-recipe/</link>
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		<title>Bernache: Fresh Out of the Vat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It all started with the bourru wine I talked about in this post.

Thanks to my sister, last weekend we got the chance to visit a seventh-generation, family-owned vineyard in Cour-Cheverny, a small rural town near Blois in the Loire Valley.  After writing about bourru, Sébastien and I were wondering if it was only a tradition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thetomatoknife.com/2009/11/bernache-fresh-out-of-the-vat/</link>
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