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		<title>How to dispatch an old chook and earn yourself dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deed was done; the chook’s neck was wrung. Actually her jugular was cut and neck broken, but more on that later. The important point is that I slaughtered a chicken (under professional tutelage), then plucked, guttered, butchered and poached &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/05/20/how-to-earn-dinner-and-dispatch-an-old-chook/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2178&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Question of the week: could you kill an animal to eat?</title>
		<link>http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/05/06/question-of-the-week-could-you-kill-an-animal-to-eat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you, could you, kill an animal to eat? For most of us, it&#8217;s a hypothetical question. We&#8217;re not in a position to go out and kill a beast, upon which to feast. Nor do we need to. We can pop &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/05/06/question-of-the-week-could-you-kill-an-animal-to-eat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2171&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside story: Ben Shewry’s slow rise to success at Attica</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 00:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years ago Ben Shewry’s ambition for Attica, his restaurant in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea, was to not go broke. Now diners have to book five months in advance to get a table on a Saturday night. The phone has &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/05/04/inside-story-ben-shewrys-slow-rise-to-success-at-attica/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2164&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The veggie patch: feeding a compost addiction</title>
		<link>http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/25/the-veggie-patch-feeding-a-compost-addiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I can’t live without a compost bin!” That was me, putting my foot down in the back garden when I was told the compost bin had to go. Some girls can’t live without pedicures, new shoes, or chocolate. I can’t live &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/25/the-veggie-patch-feeding-a-compost-addiction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2156&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The veggie patch: babysitting seedlings</title>
		<link>http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/23/the-veggie-patch-babysitting-seedlings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call me crazy, but when i awoke at about 3am one morning to hear torrential rain i pelted into the back garden — barefoot and in pajamas — to drag trays of seedlings under shelter. You see, my last seed-planting &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/23/the-veggie-patch-babysitting-seedlings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2150&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sourdough Diaries: one step forward, two steps back</title>
		<link>http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/14/the-sourdough-diaries-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have one burnt arm and two burnt bottoms. Two burnt bottoms of sourdough loaves, that is. The oven remains my biggest bugbear in this sourdough baking lark. I’m getting the hang of everything else. Following the advice of David &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/14/the-sourdough-diaries-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2143&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend food to-do list</title>
		<link>http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/13/weekend-food-to-do-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bake sourdough that has been retarding in fridge overnight Don’t get the shits when sourdough doesn’t work very well — again Make breadcrumbs from failed sourdough loaf Don’t waste an opportunity: write a blog post about why my sourdough sucks &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/13/weekend-food-to-do-list/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2134&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food for thought for a loved one</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear loved one, I’ve dedicated myself to cooking your dinners for over a decade. Sometimes slow-cooked, oftentimes quickly cooked, but nearly always home-cooked — none of this pre-made junk. You know those mad half-day cook-a-thons i have in the kitchen &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/12/food-for-thought-for-a-loved-one/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2132&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sourdough secrets revealed</title>
		<link>http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/05/sourdough-secrets-revealed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David McGuinness, co-founder of Bourke Street Bakery — which has a cult-like following of bread worshippers — has had his sourdough starter for about 12 years. It began life as a mixture of flour and water in a bucket on &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/04/05/sourdough-secrets-revealed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2124&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From India: a cookbook worth coveting</title>
		<link>http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/03/21/from-india-a-cookbook-worth-coveting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With its beautiful blue, intricately designed, padded cover, From India: Food, Family &#38; Tradition by Kumar and Suba Mahadevan is a cookbook worth coveting. I’m a big fan of the Mahadevan’s work. We’ve visited their first restaurant, Abhi’s in the &#8230; <a href="http://thefoodsage.com.au/2013/03/21/from-india-a-cookbook-worth-coveting/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefoodsage.com.au&#038;blog=19412111&#038;post=2115&#038;subd=thefoodsage&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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