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		<title>Free Chourico and Linguica – Who Can Say No?</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/09/09/free-chourico-and-linguica-%e2%80%93-who-can-say-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t often get the chance to sell out. So when I got an email from Mello’s Chourico in Fall River offering me some free sausage in return for cooking and eating it and writing about it, I jumped at it. I know the local supermarket brands. Whole Foods sometimes has store-made chourizo, but it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken Parm</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/09/06/chicken-parm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s all about memory. After a weekend of seemingly endless stacking of wood, cooking various hot sauces, and cooking out of our out-of-control refrigerator, Monday night I wanted something comforting. Preferably nothing that looked like anything in our refrigerator. I wanted tomato sauce, melted mozzarella, and that deep fried crisp taste of an old-time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eclipse Restaurant Northampton MA &#8211; Take Two</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/08/14/eclipse-restaurant-northampton-ma-take-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last restaurant article for the Daily Hampshire Gazette was for Eclipse Restaurant. Since my &#8220;retirement&#8221; I haven&#8217;t eaten out at all (if you don&#8217;t count shipboard meals during a week long cruise in Alaska). I was curious about what a non-professional meal would taste like. When my friend Paul and I decided to meet for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Girl Who Played with Fire &#8211; Swedish version</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/07/31/the-girl-who-played-with-fire-swedish-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw the Swedish movie version last night. Once again, they did a great job of finding the bones of the story and rebuilding them into a movie. Both Salander and Blomkvest were stronger, more active characters in this one. By eliminating about 14 characters and condensing others into one character, esp the ones who worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Being a Restaurant Critic</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/07/28/not-being-a-restaurant-critic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing Frank Bruni&#8217;s article on being an ex-restaurant critic, I couldn&#8217;t agree more.
I have been a retired restaurant writer for nearly two weeks now. In between, we spent a week on a cruise to Alaska and a weekend in Seattle, eating up a storm in both places. I was a &#8220;judge&#8221; in a shipboard cooking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Reading Tony Bourdain on an Alaskan Cruise</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/07/18/on-reading-tony-bourdain-on-an-alaskan-cruise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting poolside on an Alaskan cruise ship, munching watermelon and chili con queso. Sarah wants to go downstairs to wash the fish guts off her sneakers, complements of today’s fishing trip. On stage, a Vietnamese rock band, seemingly on tour since the fall of Saigon, bounces their way through the Ventures, Carly Simon, and the Carpenters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Column-Restaurant Writing at the Gazette</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/07/16/final-column-restaurant-writing-at-the-gazette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my last column for No Reservations. By my count it will be my 66th. Food coverage in Hampshire Life will be taking a different direction so I am moving on. I’ve enjoyed writing No Reservations and I’ll miss the comments from readers.
I&#8217;ll also miss the chance to write about the restaurants I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eclipse Restaurant &#8211; Northampton</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/07/12/eclipse-restaurant-northampton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I took her son, Gideon, and his son, Oscar, out to Eclipse for a treat last Friday night. ECLIPSE (186 Main St., Northampton, 584-6006, www.eclipse186.com) is the newest entry in the fine-dining scene in Northampton. Opened in the space formerly occupied by the Good Thyme Deli and then Bistro 186, it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Food</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/07/10/street-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eating a not very together arancini at Pinocchio&#8217;s in Northampton, I realized that there is no street food in the town. Sure there&#8217;s pizza, and a bagel if you just get one and eat it, but where are the hot dogs? I&#8217;d kill for Korean tacos. Hell, I&#8217;d kill for Southwestern tacos, if I could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stieg Larsson, Andrew Vachss, and Top Cat</title>
		<link>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/05/31/stieg-larsson-andrew-vachss-and-top-cat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.russelnod.com/2010/05/31/stieg-larsson-andrew-vachss-and-top-cat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 04:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, no overt spoilers here, but if you haven&#8217;t read any Stieg Larsson, you&#8217;ll want to come back after you do.
Submitted for your approval: both Andrew Vachss (lawyer specializing in child abuse cases in NYC) and Stieg Larsson (anti-fascist journalist and protector of civil rights) were both driven so crazy by their day jobs that they retreated [...]]]></description>
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