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	<title>Cold Truth &#187; FDA</title>
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		<title>Use of meat glue goes far beyond meat</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2012/consumer-information/food-labeling/use-of-meat-glue-goes-far-beyond-meat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2012/consumer-information/food-labeling/use-of-meat-glue-goes-far-beyond-meat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Additives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Labeling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story I did  for Scripps Howard News Service Secret Ingredients &#160; Every day, millions of Americans are likely putting something in their mouths that contains a substance called “meat glue” by critics of the food industry. The additive with the unappetizing nickname is used to produce meats found in supermarkets, in local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Honey packers insist they never use Chinese honey, yet federal cops continue to bust Asian smugglers.</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/where-in-the-u-s-does-all-the-smuggled-chinese-honey-end-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/where-in-the-u-s-does-all-the-smuggled-chinese-honey-end-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honey Laundering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a four-month investigation, federal authorities have indicted yet another group of importers for allegedly smuggling Chinese honey into the U.S. Since September, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have seized more than 5 million pounds of intentionally mislabeled Chinese honey at customs warehouses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nation&#8217;s top pollen detective is all that stands between consumer and bad honey.</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/science-tracks-honey-companies-who-sell-bogus-honey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/science-tracks-honey-companies-who-sell-bogus-honey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honey Laundering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[COLLEGE STATION, Texas &#8211; Vaughn Bryant peered through the eye piece of his microscope, making infinitesimally small adjustments on the position of the slide beneath the lens. “Nothing,” he said, and switched the slide for another. &#8220;Again, nothing,” he said after about 40 seconds, and substituted another glass slide with a smudge in its center. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombies, baseball, picnics and the government&#8217;s tips for surviving</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/food-safety/cold-truth-zombies-attacks-disaster-surviving/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/food-safety/cold-truth-zombies-attacks-disaster-surviving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 20:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disaster response]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pathogens]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Federal public health and food safety experts have either found their sense of humor or realized a better way to get their important messages across to the public. A posting by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went viral last week as people around the globe rushed to get instructions for surviving an attack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When in doubt, throw it out!</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/food-safety/dont-get-food-poisoning-after-the-storm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/food-safety/dont-get-food-poisoning-after-the-storm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 06:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contaminated food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frozen food safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With end-of-the-world-like weather pummeling much of the heartland of this country with tornadoes and dam-busting rain and parts of the East Coast enduring its own meteorological escapades, federal food safety experts warn that caution has to be used in figuring out what&#8217;s safe to cook and eat. Those of us who have survived hurricane seasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you know carrots can kill you?</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/did-you-know-carrots-can-kill-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2011/government-regulation/fda/did-you-know-carrots-can-kill-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labels and safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risks to children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Failure to follow proper food processing procedures when turning Bugs Bunny’s favorite vegetable into juice can trigger a lethal pathogen called Clostridium botulinum bacteria that can grow in carrot juice. The Food and Drug Administration said today that the neurotoxin formed by these bacteria, when ingested in even very small amounts, could cause paralysis, difficulty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Chinese honey smuggler sent to prison, fined $5 million by feds</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/another-chinese-honey-smuggler-sent-to-prison-fined-5-million-by-feds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/another-chinese-honey-smuggler-sent-to-prison-fined-5-million-by-feds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 04:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honey Laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government & corporate wrong-doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risks to children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It would be great to think that store shelves are free of antibiotic-laden, watered down or bogus honey. The feds &#8211; from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to other investigative arms of Homeland Security &#8211; continue to crack down on honey launderers who, more often then not, still succeed in bringing illegal honey into the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some E-cig users don&#8217;t like the safety of their vapor-generating devices questioned</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/e-cigs/some-e-cig-users-dont-like-the-safety-of-their-vapor-generating-devices-questioned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/e-cigs/some-e-cig-users-dont-like-the-safety-of-their-vapor-generating-devices-questioned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E-cigs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government & corporate wrong-doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public health legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risks to children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes people don&#8217;t like what I write.  That&#8217;s okay. Journalism has never been a popularity contest for me.  I write what I think people need to know. Some topics spark unbelievably vitriolic reactions.  But the stories I wrote today for  AOL News on electronic cigarettes set new records for hate mail &#8211; both in quantity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds crack international honey laundering scams; indict six companies and 15 employees</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/feds-crack-international-honey-laundering-scams-indict-six-companies-and-15-employees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/feds-crack-international-honey-laundering-scams-indict-six-companies-and-15-employees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government & corporate wrong-doing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Honey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risks to children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has taken a long time and investigations in more than five countries honey but honey lovers in the U.S. now stand a better chance of buying  the golden elixir  which may be free of drugs, chemicals and other illegal contaminants because investigators from several federal agencies have scooped up some of the biggest players [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meat packers say it&#8217;s no problem but USDA-ignored E. coli forced a recall of burgers</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/e-coli/meat-packers-say-its-no-problem-but-usda-ignored-e-coli-forced-a-recall-of-burgers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/e-coli/meat-packers-say-its-no-problem-but-usda-ignored-e-coli-forced-a-recall-of-burgers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E. Coli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A strain of E. coli that the government doesn&#8217;t regulate has already sickened hamburger eaters in two states. And federal food safety detectives say more cases may be identified as we approach the summer&#8217;s last big weekend for picnics and barbecues. The supplier, Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. in Wyalusing, Pa., has recalled approximately 8,500 pounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harmful levels of Bisphenol A found in almost all canned foods, new study reports.</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/165044/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/165044/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labels and safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public health legislation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The health hazards of bisphenol A are clearly proven, but scientists now report that the levels of the chemical – used to protect canned food from corrosion and bacteria –  are surprisingly high in the  canned goods found on our kitchen shelves. To reach this conclusion, 50 different cans of food were collected from pantries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New USDA rules can prevent tens of thousands of food-poisoning cases</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/food-poisoning/new-usda-rules-can-prevent-tens-of-thousands-of-food-poisoning-cases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/food-poisoning/new-usda-rules-can-prevent-tens-of-thousands-of-food-poisoning-cases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 06:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labels and safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USDA believes it has the answer to preventing tens of thousands of cases of food poisoning each year. Photo by salmonella – UK Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced new and stricter testing standards for use by chicken and turkey farmers to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in their flocks. The Food Safety Inspection Service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare test to identify actual origins of honey is now done in U.S. and can aid in caching Chinese smugglers</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/rare-test-to-identify-actual-origins-of-honey-is-now-done-in-u-s-and-can-aid-in-caching-chinese-smugglers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/rare-test-to-identify-actual-origins-of-honey-is-now-done-in-u-s-and-can-aid-in-caching-chinese-smugglers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honey Laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging health threats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, anyone needing to confirm that the liquid golden syrup they had bought from overseas brokers was actually honey and not an altered and mislabeled blend from China had to queue up at a couple of very busy analytical labs in Germany.  That included U.S. federal investigators working to identify the origin of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some major honey dealers finally warn the public of hazards of smuggled Chinese honey</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/some-major-honey-dealers-finally-warn-the-public-of-hazards-of-smuggled-chinese-honey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/some-major-honey-dealers-finally-warn-the-public-of-hazards-of-smuggled-chinese-honey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 01:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honey Laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labels and safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USDA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long time coming, but after years of ignoring or at least downplaying the fact that millions of gallons of honey imported into the U.S. each year are illegal, tainted with animal drugs or diluted with phony sweeteners, four of North America&#8217;s prominent honey dealers today warned the public to beware of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honey bosses meet in Chicago for secret meeting on how to handle smuggling</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/honey-bosses-meet-in-chicago-for-secret-meeting-on-how-to-handle-smuggling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/honey-laundering/honey-bosses-meet-in-chicago-for-secret-meeting-on-how-to-handle-smuggling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honey Laundering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation’s top honey packers and sellers gathered in a secret meeting today in a Chicago suburb supposedly to figure out what do about the huge amount of smuggled, laundered and potentially contaminated honey gushing on to the U.S. Market. “The objective of the meeting will be a frank discussion of issues affecting the domestic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds bust importers of bacteria-laced cheese</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/food-poisoning/feds-bust-importers-of-bacteria-laced-cheese/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/food-poisoning/feds-bust-importers-of-bacteria-laced-cheese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Hondurans were arrested by federal agents today for allegedly importing more than 170,000 pounds of cheese contaminated with a dangerous bacteria which could quickly cause food poisoning if eaten. Special agents from the Food and Drug Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged Francisca Josefina Lopez and Jorge Alexis Ochoa Lopez with introducing four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of additives get into food without the FDA ensuring their safety.</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/thousands-of-additives-get-into-food-without-the-fda-ensuring-their-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/thousands-of-additives-get-into-food-without-the-fda-ensuring-their-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A newly released report has criticized America’s food safety watchdog for systemically failing to ensure the safety of what food manufacturers put in what we eat. After months of research, the Government Accountability Office told Congress it was concerned about a well-known loophole in the Food and Drug Administration regulations that for decades has concerned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An almost invisible path of food poisoning.</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/food-poisoning/an-almost-invisible-path-of-food-poisoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diacetyl and food additives]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s happening again. A single salmonella-contaminated food item is forcing recalls of scores of other products throughout the country. We went though this last year with contaminated peanuts from the Georgia and Texas plants of Peanut Corporation of America. PCA recalled the tainted goobers, but the ripple effect spread for weeks as hundreds of manufacturers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last year was a rough one for food safety. Will 2010 be any better?</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2010/government-regulation/fda/last-year-was-a-rough-one-for-food-safety-will-2010-be-any-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food - good]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the holidays I wrote about a meal we all wanted to avoid. For the appetizer: San Antonio Bay oysters polluted with Noroviruses. For the main course: grilled beef infected with E. coli from contaminated tenderizing needles; chicken with Campylobacter or imported ham with Listeria monocytogenes. Then there&#8217;s a side dish of stuffing loaded with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It looks like vinegar lovers, especially parents, now have something else to worry about</title>
		<link>http://www.coldtruth.com/2009/government-regulation/fda/it-looks-like-vinegar-lovers-especially-parents-now-have-something-else-to-worry-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Schneider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging health threats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hazards - poisoning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Risks to children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Balsamic vinegar has been coveted by Italians for centuries. Over the past 30 or so years the popularity in the U.S. of the dark, syrupy ambrosia has soared and has become loved by foodies, used sparingly by chefs and often too liberally by home cooks. Forgetting the exquisite culinary joy that comes with the almost [...]]]></description>
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