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		<title>In Visible Transformation&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, February 5th To say that I&#8217;m still processing the movie &#8220;Black Swan&#8221; is an understatement.   My friends’ and followers’ reactions to my tweeting about it forced me to do even more processing.  I think some people thought I didn&#8217;t get the movie.  Au contraire.  I have been screening my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=622&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here, Taste This!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School – Sat, Oct 2nd I’m always suspicious when someone says, “Here, taste this!” and shoves a pepper in my face.  That’s what Hans Hansen of Twin Persimmons Farm did when I arrived this morning at the market.  I was tasting an Aji Dulce chili – and it really is as good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=590&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spicy.  Sticky. Sweet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, August 28th Today, I’m doing a spicy red chili preserve, even though I don’t have all the ingredients…does that really surprise anyone at this point?  I decide to have Benjy roast the peppers in the kitchen so we don’t have to do them in small batches (and because food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=573&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When in Umbria (or in Houston dreaming of Umbria)&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chickpea Stew]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, August 21st I brought home some dried Umbrian Cicerchie (aka &#8220;wild chickpeas&#8221;) from Berkeley.   Lisa Googles Umbria for the class:  it’s one of the smallest regions in the center of Italy, just east of Tuscany, north of Rome and west of the Marches (if you imagine the map of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=552&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is This Thing On?</title>
		<link>http://monicaspeak.com/2010/09/15/is-this-thing-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monicaspeak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, August 14th Today, I’m making a gazpacho with beets.  I’m having trouble with my mic, though.  I’m not sure anyone can hear me.  I just keep talking.  I mention my mother’s gazpacho and the one I had in Spain years ago – lasting food impressions that are always my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=537&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Twog” This…Part 2</title>
		<link>http://monicaspeak.com/2010/08/30/%e2%80%9ctwog%e2%80%9d-this%e2%80%a6part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://monicaspeak.com/2010/08/30/%e2%80%9ctwog%e2%80%9d-this%e2%80%a6part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monicaspeak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chez Panisse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Davia Nelson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHEF MONICA POPE Travel Blog, Part 2 – San Francisco/Bay Area – August 2010 More Tweets from my summer travels that I never Tweeted. (&#8230;continued from Part 1) *Ah, Chez Panisse….what can I say….lots of history here.  Very unassuming, copper, warm wood, an actual fire, everyone from kitchen to floor focused on welcoming you. *We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=519&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Twog&#8221; This&#8230;Part One</title>
		<link>http://monicaspeak.com/2010/08/21/twog-this-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monicaspeak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHEF MONICA POPE Travel Blog, Part 1 – San Francisco/Bay Area – August 2010 I was supposed to Tweet during my vacation but, because I prefer to eat life instead of tweet life, I saved all my tweets and decided to blog them instead.  Call it “twogging.” That’s kind of like my other new favorite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=506&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s in Our (De-)Nature…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, July 31st My mind has already switched back into vacation mode (Yes, again! Every year, I close t’afia for a week so my staff can all have a nice vacation away without worrying about who’s going to cover whose shifts).  But before shutting it all down, I have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=488&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Thyme&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://monicaspeak.com/2010/08/15/its-about-thyme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monicaspeak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corn Chowder with Wild Salmon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School – Saturday, July 24th I&#8217;m on Mexican time, today.  Well, really Mexican thyme.  I just got back from a little vacation in Yelapa (no, not the new &#8220;beach food&#8221; restaurant here in Houston on Richmond).  Yelapa, Mexico might as well be an island, since no cars can get there.  Only boats. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=477&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long Enough For Me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://monicaspeak.com/2010/08/07/long-enough-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>monicaspeak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Long Beans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midtown Farmers Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twin Persimmons Farm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green Plum Cooking School – July 17th Right from the start, I&#8217;m not sure what is going on this morning.  Usually, we hand out tickets for seats to my free morning cooking class starting at 9:00 am.  People wander up and in, cradling breakfast and coffee in their laps.  We end up with a full [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=monicaspeak.com&#038;blog=11466608&#038;post=467&#038;subd=monicaspeak&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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