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Whole-Wheat Sunflower Seed Rye Bread

I had a phone interview the other day, and the journalist was so nice and interesting that we ended up talking about a whole bunch of other subjects that we didnโ€™t intend to talk about. Like a good interviewer, she didnโ€™t start off by asking the usual questions, but came up with some original ones, which was a lot more interesting than being asked forโ€ฆ

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Restaurant le Meurice

A few years ago, a good friend who has sadly moved away, was kind enough to take me to Restaurant Le Meurice for dinner. The first memory of walking into the done-up dining room was the way the waiters brought her an Hermรจs stool for her purse, which was an Hermรจs Kelly bag. The second memory I have, was shortly after when we sat downโ€ฆ

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Patty Melt

A while back, I posted a recipe for a Meatball Sandwich, something I had been craving like a lunatic and just had to get my hands around. Then, a few weeks later, I ran into a reader (at a health food store!) in Paris who said, โ€œThat was funnyโ€ฆbecause I was craving the exact same thing, and then I saw it on your blog!โ€ Amโ€ฆ

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Restaurant Alain Ducasse

[UPDATE: The restaurant is no long an Alain Ducasse restaurant.] Uncharacteristically, Iโ€™ll spare you the specifics, but I need to catch up on about 147 hours of sleep. And while weโ€™re at it, I could use a hug. And since the former isnโ€™t necessarily easy to come by here, as is the latter, I was embrassรฉ by dinner at Alain Ducasse restaurant. While itโ€™s beenโ€ฆ

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Kumaโ€™s

Kumaโ€™s isnโ€™t the easiest place to get to. Itโ€™s in Chicago but not anywhere near the city center. And once you get out there, youโ€™ll have to wait for your table. And waiting at (or near) the bar is exquisite torture because thereโ€™s a line up of folks at the bar chowing down on the best hamburgers and macaroni and cheese youโ€™ll ever come acrossโ€ฆ.

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