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		<title>La Candelaria by Pedro Luis de Aguinaga &#8211; Spanish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Every year I write about Candlemas Day as it is celebrated in Oaxaca and in Brooklyn and other parts in the New York City area and you can read about it in English here.   Maybe you&#8217;ll want to take a tour of  Sunset Park in Brooklyn and check out the stores and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candlemas Tamal de Cazuela</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I can&#8217;t the picture to come to the top so please scroll down. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Tamal de Cazuela “Pot Tamal” without Wrapping Cubans have their beloved tamal en cazuela, Veracruzans have this near relative that must go back to kindred roots in African slave kitchens.  The Cuban version is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chorizo Norteno</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of Alex Uballez Chorizo (Mexican Fresh Sausage Mixture) Some of my earliest ranch memories are of the butchering/cooking sessions that followed every time we slaughtered a hog. This was always cause for celebration because all the women of the ranch congregated in our kitchen to help, laugh and gossip, and everyone got something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fortuna Bukharian Restaurant a fortuitous find in Rego Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A modest picture for a  great restaurant and it&#8217;s kosher if you ever need to take some friends who like that. &#160; The New York times insisted we visit Shalom Restaurant in an article that had not been updated since 2006 and the place was nowhere to be found.  So we drove down to 108th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Music Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; If I started my week on Friday, January 20th, when Alvaro Paulino, the charming, brilliant violinist founder of the Mariachi Tapatio de Alvaro Paulino , picked and rehearsed the songs that we plan to record for an  album to benefit our various favorite charitable  organizations such as Mano a Mano, Food is Arte, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me with Ball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just found this picture of me at around age 3 or 4.  Something in my look reminds me of Violeta. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Zarela&#8217;s Christmas Pork and Root Puree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This fabulous picture was taken by my friend Pedro de Aguinaga and I like the fact that a little of my root puree show.  I thought I had the recipe written down but I don&#8217;t and I will. This recipe is adapted from the Joy of Cooking (I think) and comes to you via Maryjo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Menus and Recipes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a different Christmas Eve-very intimate. I was extra cautious this year and did not send out  invitations and then neglected  to invite people personally so the table was small and sweet &#8211;7 of my nearest and dearest shared an intimate evening with.   Of course I still &#160; cooked I made my mother&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Holiday Cooking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had never cooked as much as this holiday season.  It was fun, tiring, satisfying, challenging and, especially wonderful to have people enjoying my food and the dishes our family and friends brought.  We have a rule here:  Everything must be made at home except for bread. Here are the menus, links to recipes, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>El Pedimento &#8211; New Year&#8217;s Eve in Mitla and Juquila, Oaxaca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Curiously of all the items I posted in the last year, this piece got the most hits .  I imagine that its popularity is rooted in magic or wishful thinking.  It would be wonderful if our wishes became our realities though there&#8217;s that famous line &#8220;More tears have been shed for prayers that have been [...]]]></description>
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