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		<title>Of Washed Rinds and Eliot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the silence over the past few days.  I&#8217;m just back from that testament to environmental irresponsibility, Las Vegas, where the American Association of Geographers held its annual meeting.  I&#8217;m not sure which bright spark thought it would be a good idea to hold the meeting in Vegas, but given the number of seriously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=447&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Cheese and Nightmares</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmacd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking about Cheese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheese it is a Peevish Elfe, It digests all things but itself (Old English Proverb). I had a bad dream the other night.  I suppose it was a nightmare. It wasn&#8217;t really terrifying; no blood and gore,  just oddly disturbing.  One of those dreams in which the social order of your life is radically dismantled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=413&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rind by Chagall</title>
		<link>http://cheesepoet.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/rind-by-chagall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmacd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eating Cheese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thinking about Cheese]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue cheese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a certain simple pleasure that comes from looking at cheese.  It&#8217;s different for each.  An uncut block of cheddar can seem plain but it communicates a rustic strength, as if to say &#8220;here I am; meant to sustain you&#8221;.  Cheddar is the Barnett Newman of the cheese world (if I could add footnotes to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=405&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Brebis and Babies &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmacd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ossau Iraty, Vallée d’Aspe Pur Brebis, $79.99/kg Sunday&#8217;s third cheese was a very nice raw milk Ossau-Iraty.  While this Basque cheese is typically known for a supple and creamy paste, this round was firmer and drier indicating that it had been nicely aged.  The smell alone transports you to a beautiful mountain pasture high in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=380&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Cheese from Old Cows</title>
		<link>http://cheesepoet.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/heaven-reprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Eating Cheese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le 1608, Laiterie Charlevoix, 79.99/kg. The second cheese from Sunday&#8217;s binge (OMG &#8211; is it Thursday already???) is &#8220;Le 1608”.  This is a new cheese from an old dairy, with a name that celebrates an even older heritage of a very old breed &#8211; The Canadienne. Picture ships carrying settlers across the Atlantic from Ancien [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=333&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Heaven and Back</title>
		<link>http://cheesepoet.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/to-heaven-and-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmacd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buying Cheese]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright, I said I&#8217;d check in last night and report on the picks but it was just too much after the sensory overload of seven delicious cheeses and a fantastic bottle of New Zealand Cab/Merlot &#8211; a 2004 Te Awa Cab/Merlot from Aoteoroa/New Zealand. I was rolling in post-degustation bliss and in no condition to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=315&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Sunday, This Must be a Cheese Shop</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmacd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw the beginning of Lent, but I hope that the good Christians among us sacrificed something other than cheese.  Not being Christian &#8211; or particularly good for that matter &#8211; denial is not a problem for me, so today will unfold like every Sunday has for the past few years.  You see, Holly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=245&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plot Your Favourite Cheese on our Cheesemap</title>
		<link>http://cheesepoet.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/plot-your-favourite-cheese-on-our-cheesemap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kmacd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mapping Cheese]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a boy, Joseph Conrad spent hours staring at maps, imaging the world into being.  This set the stage for his later travels and some of the best literature in the English language.  I&#8217;m a bit like that with cheese (though I doubt that I&#8217;m going to create any great cheese literature).  To look at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=238&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Certification: A Lull in the Camembert Wars</title>
		<link>http://cheesepoet.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/the-politics-of-certification-a-lull-in-the-camembert-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this excellent article by Ullrich Fichtner on Spiegel Online International Just a few short years after receiving its AOC, Camembert de Normandie came under threat in March 2007 as the major producers, French dairy giant Lactalis – the second largest producer of cheese in the world -and the Isigny Sainte-Mère dairy co-operative announced, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=175&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Toronto Cheese Event Calendar</title>
		<link>http://cheesepoet.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/the-toronto-cheese-event-calendar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too often I miss the Cheesy goings on around Toronto, so I&#8217;ve decided to create the Toronto Cheese Events Calendar, an ongoing guide to cheese events of all kinds. To access, follow the link in the upper right hand side of the page. Tastings, festivals, tours, fundraisers; anything to do with cheese, send them in. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cheesepoet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6689911&amp;post=166&amp;subd=cheesepoet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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