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		<title>OzMC the Unending Ordeal*</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/05/09/ozmc-the-unending-ordeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>syllabubdobdee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gary Mehigan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[*in a good sense Is OzMC the crucible for all the best MC trial-by-concept moves? The just-ended O/G MC (feat.Toad&#38;Gregface) seemed oddly and anxiously in its shadow &#8212; with the introduction of Toad&#8217;s make-my-masterpiece test a hurried and blodged redux of a Gary&#38;George move. Natalie is lovely and clearly a deserving winner &#8212; in a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1439&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;taters and tattoos</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/05/06/taters-and-tattoos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 11:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fanny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures in Cookery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tattoos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, while looking for photographs to illustrate my recent Q&#38;A with Chef Pizarro, I came across this link from the Financial Times of all places.  Yes, it shows that my favourite chef has indeed got ink and as a fan of tattoos myself, it got me wondering what weird and wonderful culinary tattoos there are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1432&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>question time</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/04/19/question-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fanny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adventures in Cookery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Pizarro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having gone on about how awesome Jose Pizarro is, I thought I may as well put my money where my mouth is and got my people to contact his people.  After lengthy negotiations and hardball tactics, Chef Pizarro cleared his busy schedule and answered a few questions for me!   Yeah, OK, not much negotiating took [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1422&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;there&#8217;s no drama like wrestling&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/04/13/theres-no-drama-like-wrestling/</link>
		<comments>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/04/13/theres-no-drama-like-wrestling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fanny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gregg Wallace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, OK, I had to shoe horn a wrestling angle in there somehow (all will become clear later)&#8230; that or a Marx Brothers quote. There are always trends running through a Masterchef series and this year it seems to be duck, duck, duck (but no duck soup).  The current run continues apace with another trend [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1399&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MMM-HMMM</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/04/12/mmm-hmmm/</link>
		<comments>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/04/12/mmm-hmmm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>takotsubo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gregg Wallace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Swede Mason&#8217;s classic Masterchef mashup, go here. Filed under: Gregg Wallace, John Torode, Masterchef UK<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1396&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>disaster class?</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/24/disaster-class/</link>
		<comments>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/24/disaster-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fanny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Galton Blackiston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jun Tanaka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Genre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a wintry Saturday lunchtime, after wolfing down scrambled eggs, bacon and toast (with brown sauce) I happened to spot a triple bill on BBC2.  Country Show Cook Off.  Never heard of it.  Loved it.  The title sequence tells you all you need to know; a pair of top quality, celebrity chefs travel the country [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1382&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>adventures in eating pt. 245</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/18/adventures-in-eating-pt-245/</link>
		<comments>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/18/adventures-in-eating-pt-245/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>takotsubo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brief off-telly aside. A couple of days ago I went to Wahaca on the South Bank in London to try their &#8216;chapulines fundido&#8217;, after reading about it in the Guardian via a piece entitled &#8216;Should We Learn To Love Eating Insects?&#8216;.  There seems to be a minor media wave about insects-as-food, tonight on BBC4 there is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1374&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>food, glorious food, we&#8217;re anxious to try it</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/16/food-glorious-food-were-anxious-to-try-it/</link>
		<comments>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/16/food-glorious-food-were-anxious-to-try-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fanny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ITV]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or are we? To much fanfare, &#8216;Food Glorious Food&#8217; has finally appeared on our ITV screens.  Billed as &#8216;the Simon Cowell food competition&#8217; you could be forgiven for expecting Masterchef Australia style studio auditions in front of a screaming crowd who&#8217;d boo when the judges diss a dessert or poo-poo a potato dauphiniose.  No, Mr [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1363&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>is it safe?</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/14/is-it-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fanny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaaand, we&#8217;re back.  Masterchef UK is on our telly boxes once again.  It only feels like yesterday that Shelina, Tom and Andrew sweated buckets in Thailand and thoroughly educated us in the way of the mango.  It&#8217;s early days but I think, ladies and gentlemen, that we&#8217;re in for a real treat! First of all, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1355&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>if you smell what C4&#8242;s cooking (P)</title>
		<link>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/10/if-you-smell-what-c4s-cooking-p/</link>
		<comments>http://bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com/2013/03/10/if-you-smell-what-c4s-cooking-p/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fanny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent trip to a well known supermarket (OK we&#8217;ve got the product placement symbol, so it was Sainsbury&#8217;s!) I heard a pre-recorded tannoy announcement for a brand new &#8216;culinary chat show&#8217;.  Oh, the joy.  After a hard week at work I thought I may have imagined it but, no.  I tuned in to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis.com&#038;blog=32719646&#038;post=1345&#038;subd=bloggingdoesntgettougherthanthis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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