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		<title>Taking the cake: A&amp;U bakeoff revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; One table, fifteen plates, two notebooks and great deal of salivating. That&#8217;s what greeted the Empress and me as we stepped into the hallowed halls of Allen &#38; Unwin&#8216;s Sydney offices the other week. Long-term visitors to this blog will recall that last year Steph and I had the same honour &#8211; judging the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1903&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I need your help with fictional food</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a little quest, and I think all my beloved shuckers are just the folk to help me. I need to compile a list of novels in which food and cookery is central &#8211; can be any genre, any era, just so long as food is somehow inextricably linked to the story and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1896&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sweetness and light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the slow cooking and braising we’ve been doing lately, the question of accompaniments arises. It’s easy to tire of couscous, polenta can be tricky and for some reason I’ve never been a big fan of plain rice with non-Asian food. Which is where Skye Gyngell’s sweet potato mash comes in. You may know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1674&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living in the seventies: Fondue, baby!</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/11/29/living-in-the-seventies-fondue-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of fondue arose recently, as it does now and then among friends when drink has been taken. Everyone in the room recalled their parents&#8217; fondue set and its occasional outings along with the funky pantsuits and false eyelashes of yore. But there was general disagreement about what fondue actually involved &#8211; some purists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1412&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food as loneliness (in London still)</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/10/28/food-as-loneliness-in-london-still/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am excited this week, because our anthology, Brothers &#38; Sisters, is finally out, in the shops, published, released into the wild. The launch is in a couple of weeks &#8211; I would love all howtoshuckanoyster friends to come along, so if you are in Sydney and available on the evening of Tuesday 10 November, let [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1326&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A quickie on Julie/Julia</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/10/27/a-quickie-on-juliejulia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Empress, the Parsnip Princess and I went to see the Meryl movie, Julie &#38; Julia. And loved it, as anticipated. That Julia Child was a woman of appetites, if this film is any kind of a biopic. We left the cinema drooling and wanting boned duck stuffed with pate and cooked in pastry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1335&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the books</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/08/30/back-to-the-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to our very satisfying natter about cookbooks a couple of weeks back, I have now obtained the Empress&#8217;s informative and amusing cookbook manifesto, first published a few years ago in Good Reading magazine, and it&#8217;s available here as a quick PDF file (will also pop it on the Writing on food page for easy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1175&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shelf help</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/08/07/filling-the-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is inspired by two things &#8211; first, the empty space we now have in our new cookbook shelves; and second, our chat here about Julia Child, and especially Julie&#8217;s &#38; Fiona&#8217;s recollections of working from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which Fiona so beautifully described as &#8220;my first cooking book mother – the human [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1099&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cate Kennedy&#8217;s new shoots</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/07/21/cate-kennedys-garlic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve said before, Cate Kennedy has a new book coming out soon. It&#8217;s a novel, and I keep hearing from advance readers (those folks who get to snaffle up the advance copies of books that are sent out to bookshops, media and so on before they are actually in the shops) that it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loved letters</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2009/06/03/loved-letters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have just picked up, once again, the book of gorgeous letters between the writers Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell, The Element of Lavishness.   It is one of my favourite, favourite books &#8211; forty years of correspondence between Warner, in England, and Maxwell, in the US, which began when Maxwell was fiction editor at The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&amp;blog=6779636&amp;post=681&amp;subd=charlottewood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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