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	<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 19:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Advanced Knife Skills: Beyond Garnishes &#038; Into Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 18:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Photo: Michael Temchine for The New York Times
Today&#8217;s New York Times has an in-depth look at high end fruit and vegetable carving, Knife Skills: Creating Feasts for the Eyes. The accompanying photos are gorgeous, though the writer misses an important historical point. Food sculpture goes a lot farther back than 1977. Elaborately carved centerpieces were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The FBI (FoodBorne Illnesses) &#038; How to Avoid Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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This heavy rubber cutting board from Sani-Tuff is only used for raw proteins &#8212; nothing else.
Food Borne Illnesses
Background
There are thousands of viruses and pathogens and millions of bacteria swarming in, on and around us at all times. E. Coli, as a matter of fact, is a natural and necessary inhabitant of the intestines of nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview on VarmintBites</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raleigh food blogger, attorney, and man about town Dean McCord has written a very kind preview of &#8220;An Edge in the Kitchen&#8221; titled These are the Days of Our Knives on his blog, VarmintBites. Dean writes about dining, home cooking, family, and the Triangle&#8217;s burgeoning food movement. His cobbler recipe is also top notch. Definitely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Review from OnlyKnives.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first review is in. The good folks at OnlyKnives.com have just posted a glowing review of An Edge in the Kitchen:
If you’ve spent any time at all researching kitchen knives, you quickly realize that there’s a lot of disinformation out there. Myths, misperceptions and outright lies abound. Chad attempts to debunk some of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blade Show in Atlanta, Kitchen Knife Nuts In PA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve updated the News &#38; Reviews page. In short, I&#8217;ll be at the Blade Show in Atlanta May 30 through June 1 and the East Coast Kitchen Knife Gathering June 20 - 22 in Pennsylvania. See the page for details. Hope to see you at one of the events!
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		<title>How Not to Buy Garbage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 13:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 2 of So You Wanna Buy a Knife is up at Leite&#8217;s Culinaria. Todays lesson: How Not to Buy Garbage
Sometimes it can be a little hard to tell quality knives from knives that simply have better marketing budgets. Here are the warning signs that the knives you are looking at might be not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Blogging on Leite&#8217;s Culinaria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Leite has been kind enough (or desperate enough) to invite me to do a couple of guest pieces for his blog on Leite&#8217;s Culinaria.
Today&#8217;s entry, &#8220;So Ya Wanna Buy a Knife&#8221;
You have decided that it is time to get serious, time to show the world that you have arrived and are ready to cook. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruhlman&#8217;s Kitchen Gear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Ruhlman, author of The Elements of Cooking, has a short bit on his favorite kitchen gear. I like the way he thinks. We all have too much crap in our kitchens. I do agree with many of the comments, though. I would have a hard time getting along without my tongs.
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		<title>The American Shuffle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a Change in 17th Century French Knifemaking Led to the Uniquely American Style of Eating
Another example of how knives have shaped culture is the unique American habit of switching the fork from the left hand to the right and back as we eat. Ever wonder why we do this awkward little move? It all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kitchen Knives Changed the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why write a book about kitchen knives? Because kitchen knives changed the world. Because they are the oldest and most important tool known to humankind. As Michael Symon wrote in A History of Cooks and Cooking, &#8220;The use of knives does not depend on culture, it is culture.&#8221; If you include our pre-human ancestors, we [...]]]></description>
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