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		<title>Jiro Dreams of Sushi giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sydney readers! I have been sent two double passes to give away to this beautiful-looking film, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, showing at the Chauvel in Paddington. The first two readers to email me at info@charlottewood.com.au get the tickets! The following info comes from the film people &#8211; I haven&#8217;t seen it yet but will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2405&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 03:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all &#8230; well, Love &#38; Hunger has been out for a week today, and I&#8217;ve been a little taken aback at how frenetic that week has been. A few radio interviews, a newspaper extract here and there, a couple of reviews, few pieces on others&#8217; people&#8217;s blogs - I&#8217;m pooped! And on Thursday I&#8217;m off [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2400&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch at our place</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 22:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[book trailer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My beautiful nephew Henry Simmons made this book trailer for Love &#38; Hunger &#8211; it pretty much represents the style of cooking and the emotional energy of  the book, and the way we like to eat round here. Casual, chaotic cacophony. Thank you to Henry &#8211; and to the bookshops who are greeting Love &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2392&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking as conversation</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2012/04/27/cooking-as-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just read Julian Barnes&#8217; The Pedant in the Kitchen, a slender, amusing challenge to sludgy writing of all kinds. I read it in an evening and found it very bracing. It&#8217;s come at exactly the right time for me, as with my new book coming out I&#8217;ve been asked to write bits and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2387&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, and a new site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s only a few weeks until my new book  about cooking - Love &#38; Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food - is published. Exciting! The book now has its own (simple, but sparkly) new website &#8211; check it out here if you&#8217;re interested. It also has a page listing events where I&#8217;ll be talking about Love [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2384&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict in the kitchen</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2012/04/06/conflict-in-the-kitchen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about culinary power plays between couples. It&#8217;s my observation that, with couples who are interested in cooking, there often tends to be one party who does the fancy footwork and gets the praise, and the other who ends up at best as sous chef &#8211; or at worst, general dogsbody whose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2375&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetarian vacation: the verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here we are in March, and after a month of almost-vegetarianism, Senor and I have returned from our holiday from eating animals. The experience of avoiding meat brought a few surprises, a few hiccups &#8211; you may recall my VegFeb fail on day one! &#8211; and some interesting insights into our food culture and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2355&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The inside story</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2012/02/20/the-inside-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be back very shortly with another vego update, but in the meantime the article that helped tip us into our vego month appeared in the Good Weekend magazine yesterday. I spent a week cooking and eating offal &#8211; and some of it was a leetle scary! If you&#8217;re interested in reading, the article is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2347&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Veg Report</title>
		<link>http://howtoshuckanoyster.com/2012/02/04/the-veg-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems a bit early to report on my first week as a vegetarian seeing as it&#8217;s actually only day four of our VegFeb month, but what the hell.  I am already finding it an interesting experience. Day one was &#8211; well, a great big veg fail, because I omitted to read a menu properly. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2335&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fish out of water</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlotte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our (almost) vegetarian adventure Some of you already know about the culinary experiment I am forcing on Senor for February &#8211; the two of us are going veg for a month. Last year it was Febfast, giving up the booze, which was a chore, to say the least. I expect to enjoy this February a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=howtoshuckanoyster.com&#038;blog=6779636&#038;post=2320&#038;subd=charlottewood&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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