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  1. Atlanta Culinary School Hosts Summer Harvest fESTIVALSun, 09 Aug 2009 00:06:10 GMT
    ATLANTA (July 9, 2009) – The Slow Food on Campus Club at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts Atlanta (LCB) will host its second "Summer Harvest Market" on August 30, 2009 at the Tucker campus, 1927 Lakeside Parkway, from 10 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. For more information about this event, visit our website www.slowfoodlcb.com.
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The Cheese Course
  1. Primo Sale, young pecorino, hard to findSun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 PST
    That hard, sharp, salty pecorino that is intended for grating (see Chefs' Secrets, Page K3) is pecorino nearing the end of its life. To taste pecorino in its youth, try Primo Sale. This pale, rindless wheel has many fans in southern Italy, where it is used in...
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  2. Sweet, fudgy Gjetost finishes with lemony tangSun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST
    Even cheese fanatics occasionally encounter a cheese they simply can't abide. My blind spot is Gjetost (pronounced YET-ost), the Norwegian cheese, and if I don't hear from a few indignant Norwegians, I will be surprised. My late father-in-law loved Gjetost...
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  3. Two-Faced Blue pleasingly blends sheep, cow milkSun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST
    Perhaps the most surprising thing about Two-Faced Blue isn't how good it is, but how quickly the creamery behind it has managed to produce cheese of such quality. Willapa Hills Farmstead Cheese is less than 2 years old. Its husband-and-wife owners had no...
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Between Meals
  1. Menus that capture the essence of placeThu, 18 Mar 2010 05:02:26 PST
    Two recent meals keep popping back into my consciousness: The lunch I had Friday at Osteria Stellina in Point Reyes Station, and the dinner that night downstairs at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. I...
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  2. Another critic bites the dustWed, 17 Mar 2010 05:17:30 PST
    Yesterday I read a piece by Josh Ozersky on Time.com about the departure of Raymond Sokolov, a critic with 25 years experience, who had written reviews for the Wall Street Journal since 2006. In...
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  3. Looking at Bay Area food from a visitor's perspectiveTue, 16 Mar 2010 05:03:46 PST
    Last week, I played tour guide for a colleague I often eat with three or four times a year, when we get together in various cities. In the last few years, we've tackled New York, Seattle, Chicago,...
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  4. If I say North, someone is sure to say SouthMon, 15 Mar 2010 05:05:19 PST
    If disagreement and differing opinions are the spice of life, my life probably registers about a half million on the Scoville heat scale. If I say North, some one is bound to say South. Here's a...
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