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	<title>a food and wine blog</title>
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	<description>a casual approach to food, wine and Baltimore living - food and wine blog</description>
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		<title>A great new liquor store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, 9/6, I headed down to Elkridge on a tip from a local beer expert that there is a new store with a fantastic selection of hard to find beers, in particular Belgian ales that cannot normally be found out side of Belgium!  The liquor store is &#8220;the perfect pour&#8221; .  It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/09/07/a-great-new-liquor-store/</link>
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		<title>Food, Wine, Culture TV: Episode10: Part2- Mike vs. Greg  &#8220;The Showdown&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Food, Wine, Culture TV: In Episode 10-Part 1 Michael invited beer expert and close friend Greg Bissonette to come by for a beer vs. wine with mussels tasting.  Well in this episode, the mussels are ready, the beers and wines are poured, and the boys are ready to duel- Beer vs. Wine.  Greg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/09/05/food-wine-culture-tv-episode10-part2-mike-vs-greg-the-showdown/</link>
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		<title>Food, Wine, Culture TV: Episode 10: Beer (Greg) vs. Wine (Mike)- Mussels Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beer vs. Wine.  Mussels vs. Mussels.  Michael vs. Greg.  Good vs. Evil..well you get the picture. Today Michael has friend and beer expert Greg Bissonette over for a friendly dual of mussels paired with beer and wine.  Don&#8217;t forget to check back for Part II- &#8220;The Battle Continues&#8221;!
(Main image credits: wikipeida.org [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/09/03/episode10-beer-wine-mussels/</link>
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		<title>Fall 2008 - Food and Wine Events in Maryland!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To have your event added for free, contact: Michael@foodandwineblog.com
Wine Events:

Sotto Sopra: A Taste Tour of Italy’s Wine Regions: Thursday, September 11th- 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Limited to 18 guests. $25 per person* (plus tax and gratuity) Reservations Required – 410 625 0534
http://sottosoprainc.blogspot.com/2008/08/tour-of-italys-wine-regions-with.html
Harford Friends School: A Taste of Excellence: November 9th 2008: Great wines from around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/09/03/fall-2008-food-and-wine-events-in-maryland/</link>
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		<title>Episode-9: The Wines of Henry&#8217;s Drive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Food, Wine, Culture TV- Episode 9: I recently had a chance to have dinner with the very talented wine maker Renae Hirsch- the newest wine maker at well known producer Henry&#8217;s Drive in the Padthaway region of Southeast Australia.  I was very impressed with Renae&#8217;s passion and love of wine and good food, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/09/01/episode9/</link>
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		<title>Food, Wine, Culture TV - Episode 8: Two easy seafood dishes and Italian White Wines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Food, Wine, Culture TV- The Real Episode 8: Today we&#8217;re making fried calamari and lobster which I pair with a couple white wines from Soave (Veneto, Italy) that I tasted in Episode 7 (here).   Join me for a 12 minute journey into some great seafood and good wines!


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		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/08/28/episode8-seafood-soave/</link>
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		<title>Italian Night in an American&#8217;s Household</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, Mike has tasted the finer things of Italy, the good proscuitto and he has rated and drank many fine Italian wines and even toured the countryside finding delicious things to eat or drink.  For now, however, I am home bound.  However I do sometimes get caught up in the good, simple foods from Italy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/08/27/italian-night-in-an-americans-household/</link>
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		<title>Homemade Catawba Wine, part 2.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good wine has a nice balance of flavor, color and aroma, though many factors contribute to the &#8216;flavor&#8217;.  The mouth-feel of the wine, the bitterness, sweetness, how sour it tastes or how these flavors work together (Is there umami flavor in wine?).  In order to contribute to the sour or sharp aspect of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/08/27/homemade-catawba-wine-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Food, Wine, Culture TV - Episode 7: Blind Prosciutto Tasting and Italian White Wines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No news show this week! It was lost in the taping some how&#8230;so here&#8217;s an early Episode 7!  (main page image: wikipedia.com wiki commons)
Episode 7: In what Michael refers to as episode 8, is really episode 7 (an episode was lost to the MiniDV Tape Gods!). Today we&#8217;re blind tasting three prosciuttos, and then tasting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/08/26/episode7-prosciutto-italian-white-wines/</link>
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		<title>First-time visitors guide to Montalcino</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past November Kim and I spent nine days dining and wine tasting in one of the most  highly acclaimed wine regions in the world. On our trip to Montalcino, we abandoned the guide books that helped us in Florence, Siena and Bologna and decided that we would just find places that looked good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://foodandwineblog.com/2008/08/25/guide-to-montalcino/</link>
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