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	<title>Trippy Food &#187; South and Central America</title>
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		<title>Night Of The Iguana</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2012/02/27/night-of-the-iguana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iguana Central and South America I have three pet peeves that make me cringe each time they are executed by food writers &#8211; the first being the mortal sin of using the possessive apostrophe for plurality; the second is lauding the authenticity of a dish that isn&#8217;t even close (e.g., gushing over how the pork <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2012/02/27/night-of-the-iguana/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Smell A Rat</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2012/01/31/i-smell-a-rat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.trippyfood.com/?p=3600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nutria (South America and Louisiana) L.A. Gastronauts at Villains Tavern, Los Angeles CA Despite the American romance with Cajun cuisine, the thought of Paul Prudhomme or Emeril Lagasse presenting a steaming platter of rat fricassée conjures up visions of restaurant doors being blown open in a stampede with more force than Hurricane Katrina. While you&#8217;re <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2012/01/31/i-smell-a-rat/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Am The Pumpkin King</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/11/28/i-am-the-pumpkin-king/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/11/28/i-am-the-pumpkin-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pumpkin (Part II) Last year around this time I posted an article on pumpkin highlighting some of the pumpkin-laden dishes I&#8217;ve had the pleasure to enjoy; virtually every part of every variety of pumpkin is edible, with each variety imparting its own unique flavor. Most of us are familiar with the common Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin that <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/11/28/i-am-the-pumpkin-king/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Abbey</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/10/04/dear-abbey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taco Tuesdays at The Abbey West Hollywood, California Who wouldn&#8217;t want to see Tuesdays wiped off the map, that useless pretender of a weekday nestled between the punishing, seventh level of hell day of reckoning we call Monday and the now legendary light-at-the-end-of the-tunnel, Tony Robbinsesque cat poster of a day in need of phonetic <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/10/04/dear-abbey/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Una Aventura Llamada Menudo</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/10/02/una-aventura-llamada-menudo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/10/02/una-aventura-llamada-menudo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 19:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[6th Annual Menudo Festival Santa Maria, California Menudo is such a simple and homespun dish, yet just the mention of it evokes a wide variety of reactions. There are those who will remember the unique smell emanating throughout the kitchen, conjuring sweet childhood memories; others will tolerate it at a Mexican restaurant as a cure <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/10/02/una-aventura-llamada-menudo/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Scarlet Letter</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/07/05/the-scarlet-letter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/07/05/the-scarlet-letter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.trippyfood.com/?p=2751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Red O Restaurant Los Angeles CA In mid-2010, celebrity chef Rick Bayless decided to expand his empire past Chicago and offer Mexican fine dining at Red O in the city just north of where they simply call Mexican food &#8220;food&#8221; &#8211; Los Angeles. Bayless is neither the owner nor chef-in-residence at Red O, but as <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/07/05/the-scarlet-letter/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Überrito</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/03/10/uberrito/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.trippyfood.com/?p=2435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Feijoada burrito Ta Bom, Los Angeles County Albert Einstein&#8230; Alexander Graham Bell&#8230; Thomas Edison&#8230; Leonardo Da Vinci&#8230; geniuses, right? Wrong. Lucky idiots, the whole lot of them. Time/space theorem, the telephone, audio recording, helicopters, hell &#8211; my nephew in 4th grade could do that in about 20 minutes. But I&#8217;ll shine light on true genius <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/03/10/uberrito/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Pooh-Pooh the Pupusa</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/01/25/dont-pooh-pooh-the-pupusa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/01/25/dont-pooh-pooh-the-pupusa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pupusas El Salvador Pupusas have been part of the Los Angeles food culture since the 1980s influx of Salvadorans during civil war in their homeland. Salvadoran and Central American restaurants grill up pupusas by the thousands on a daily basis from windowless shacks to tablecothed bistros, with each carrying the basic three or four varieties <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2011/01/25/dont-pooh-pooh-the-pupusa/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fellowship of the Ring</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/12/29/fellowship-of-the-ring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosca de Reyes Mexico I was aware of the tradition of the King Cake, a Mardi Gras staple decorated with familiar gold, green and purple icing and hiding a tiny plastic baby Jesus like some confectionary Cracker Jack pastry where you eat the box. I was unfortunate enough to have found the baby &#8211; unfortunate <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/12/29/fellowship-of-the-ring/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Guacamole!</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/10/14/holy-guacamole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[24th Annual California Avocado Festival Carpinteria, California The ever-popular avocado originated in Puebla, Mexico, where the family patriarch can still be found locally in the form of the small, black, gourd-shaped fruit called &#8220;criollo&#8221;. The Spanish were the first to introduce the &#8220;alligator pear&#8221; to other temperate and tropical regions of the world, with its <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/10/14/holy-guacamole/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Full Brazilian</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/09/30/the-full-brazilian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian Day at the La Brea Tar Pits Los Angeles, California With no disrespect intended, mention &#8220;Brazilian&#8221; and some people think, &#8220;wax&#8221;, but in Los Angeles on the weekend closest to the anniversary of Brazil’s independence from Portugal, the sticky substance in abundance is tar. The annual Brazilian Day festival has been held for the <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/09/30/the-full-brazilian/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>WARNING! Contains Cornographic Images</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/06/28/warning-contains-cornographic-images/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huitlacoche (corn smut) Mexico It raises a few eyebrows when I announce that I&#8217;m headed to Los Angeles&#8217; Koreatown to check out the smut, but in this particular case it&#8217;s corn smut (huitlacoche) I&#8217;m referring to. Huitlacoche has been a staple of the Central American diet for centuries &#8211; it is essentially a fungus that <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/06/28/warning-contains-cornographic-images/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blame It On The Bossa Nova</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/05/20/blame-it-on-the-bossa-nova/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ta Bom Brazilian Food Truck Los Angeles County, California To many of the non-Portuguese speaking Angelenos who see Ta Bom coming, the name emblazoned on the front gets alliterated to &#8220;The Bomb&#8221;. Ilse Marques and her twin daughters Jackie and Julie aren&#8217;t about to go Rosetta Stone on their ass since it brings customers to <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/05/20/blame-it-on-the-bossa-nova/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Brazil by the Pound</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/04/29/selling-brazil-by-the-pound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian buffet Libra By The Pound, Culver City CA When I received an invitation to try Marcelo Ahn&#8217;s new Brazilian eatery, it was described as &#8220;Brazilian buffet&#8221;. I couldn&#8217;t get the image out of my head of a mutant cross between Fogo de Chao and Golden Corral or a Souper Salad with animals staked out <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/04/29/selling-brazil-by-the-pound/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Bird&#8217;s The Word</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/04/26/the-birds-the-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ostrich Africa and elsewhere The ostrich is a laughable bird, with wings too weak to lift its body and a light-bulb shaped head on the end of a fuzzy snake of a neck. Of course should you choose to laugh at it, you run the risk of getting kicked into tomorrow. Although they are the <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2010/04/26/the-birds-the-word/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meet The Beetles!</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/11/26/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-beetles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insects: Hormigas Culonas (Leaf-cutter Ants), Beondegi (Silkworm Pupae), Scorpions, Crickets, Chapulines (Grasshoppers), Maguey Worms and Mealworms Nothing bugs me worse than offering someone a tasty insect snack, only to have them cry out in disgust before they even taste them. Throughout history, eating insects has not only been a means of survival (they are generally low in <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/11/26/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-beetles/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Do The Funky Chicken</title>
		<link>http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/11/15/do-the-funky-chicken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ubaté, Cundinamarca, Colombia Pescuezo de Gallina Relleno (La Chata) The food of Colombia is an overwhelming assault on the senses. The rich, hearty cuisine of the people is the ultimate in comfort food, especially if your comfort zone overlaps the twilight zone. I will devote an article on the general food of Columbia, but there <a href='http://www.trippyfood.com/2009/11/15/do-the-funky-chicken/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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