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		<title>Ryokan Kurashiki, Day Two, part two</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our second dinner at Ryokan Kurashiki, on March 24, 2013, was Linda’s birthday party. Kiyoko brought celebratory clothes for us to wear in a photo shoot. A kanreki is a celebration of a sixtieth birthday, after one has passed through the twelve-year zodiac cycle five times, one for each of the elements: earth, air, fire, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12418&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ryokan Kurashiki, Day Two, part one</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While dinners at the Ryokan Kurashiki are served in each of the eight individual guestrooms, or in the tatami dining rooms upstairs for outside private parties, breakfasts are served in the restaurant, which also serves lunch to people who are not staying at the inn. And so we started March 24, 2013, Linda’s birthday, in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12390&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ryokan Kurashiki, Day One</title>
		<link>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/ryokan-kurashiki-day-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 11:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 23, 2013 Linda and I left Tokyo on the fast Shinkansen train for Okayama, the stop before Hiroshima. For lunch on the train we bought bento boxes at the Tokyo Station.   They looked good, but were quite disappointing. On arrival we were met by a limousine and driver from a local taxi company. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12352&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Degustation, NYC 2</title>
		<link>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/degustation-nyc-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[below 8th Street]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Degustation has been a favorite of some New York foodies since its opening in 2007. It gets a 28 (the 2nd highest) food rating in Zagat, but faint praise in other media. I dined there in 2009; my reaction was mixed, but I concluded: &#8220;I would be happy to go back &#8230; as I could sense the talent of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=13066&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Takazawa, Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/takazawa-tokyo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoshiaki Takazawa grew up in a family of Japanese chefs. After French culinary school, he trained at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo. Then, after working at a variety of restaurants, including a yakitori shop and a wedding banquet hall, he and his wife Akiko opened Aronia de Takazawa in 2005. They served Japanese-influenced French cuisine to only [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12627&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kagurazaka Ishikawa, Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/kagurazaka-ishikawa-tokyo/</link>
		<comments>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/kagurazaka-ishikawa-tokyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chef Hideki Ishikawa, 48, worked at more than ten different restaurants over 17 years. Ten years ago he established his own restaurant in the geisha district of Kagurazaka. Five years ago it was awarded three Michelin stars. Kent, Linda and I went for dinner on April 2, 2013. Kagurazaka Ishikawa&#8216;s entrance is discreet even by Japanese standards. Despite [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12589&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suigetsu Hotel Oghaisou, Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/suigetsu-hotel-oghaisou-tokyo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old house of the great writer Ogai Mori remains enclosed in the garden of the Suigetsu Hotel next to Ueno Park. The house now houses a traditional Japanese restaurant. This hotel is among a few remaining Japanese-style inns (ryokan) surviving in Tokyo and pampers you with a hot spring communal bath. Toshio invited Linda and me [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12299&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ginza Torishige, Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/ginza-torishige-tokyo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ginza Torishige is celebrating its 82nd birthday this year. It occupies two crowded floors in a building one block south of the Ginza. Linda and I went for dinner on March 22, 2013. We were seated at the counter on the second floor. We could watch the two yakitori chefs in front of us, but [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12336&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empellón Cocina, NYC</title>
		<link>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/empellon-cocina-nyc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[below 8th Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Stupak, 33, was regarded by many as the best American avant-garde dessert chef, at Clio, at Alinea, then for four years at WD-50. But he abandoned this specialty and, two years ago, opened a taqueria in the East Village called Empellón, meaning “push” in Spanish. This career change created quite a stir in New York foodie [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12266&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marea, NYC 4</title>
		<link>http://epicures.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/marea-nyc-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Side above 55th Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marea has become one of our favorite restaurants in New York. Although our last blogpost dates back almost two years, we have enjoyed it since then without blogging. Linda and I returned for dinner on March 5, 2013. We ordered glasses of Prosecco Superior Brut, Borgoluce (Veneto.) With the prosecco we had RICCI sea urchin, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=epicures.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4180999&#038;post=12249&#038;subd=epicures&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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