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		<title>Thinking Differently</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs changed my life. It was a gradual process that began in the fall of 1984, when I first interacted with a Macintosh. I had moved into Castle Moose, a house full of game-playing Harvard graduates and later the location of some of my culinary milestones, including the legendary pumpkin pie story. In addition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Waiting For My Food Pills</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2011/07/15/still-waiting-for-my-food-pills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a transcript of a talk I presented at Readercon 22 on Friday, July 15. Images are included as they appeared in the slide show. I had submitted the following description for the conference program guide: Cooking has always been based on science, but the connection was made explicit with the 1984 publication of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges!*</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2011/06/15/i-dont-have-to-show-you-any-stinking-badges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iwas a Boy Scout, but I never worked my way up the ranks to Eagle scout. That achievement required at least 21 merit badges, a few of which (swimming, lifesaving) were mandatory requirements completely beyond my physical capabilities. It should come as no surprise that I did acquire the cooking merit badge before I gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Lamp</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/11/12/get-lamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a gaming geek of a certain age, the phrase &#8220;get lamp&#8221; should evoke a whole series of memories. For me they remind me of nights spent in the basement of McGregor House at MIT, where I played Adventure, the first computer text game, on a DEC line printer terminal (complete with 300 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtues of Restraint</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/10/19/the-virtues-of-restraint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after we moved into our house (which She Who Must Be Obeyed bought me for my birthday fifteen years ago), we were given a bonsai juniper as a housewarming present. Since I deal with all of the Chez Belm biology projects (carnivorous plants, herb garden, outdoor landscaping, fermented food products, tropical fish, small boy), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony and Me</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/07/27/tony-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the day I read Kitchen Confidential (KC ) right through to today, Anthony Bourdain has been a huge influence on how I cook, eat, and think about cooking and eating. He motivated me to try new things, which has led to some amazing meals at Per Se, St. John, Au Pied de Cochon, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Readercon 21</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/07/08/readercon-21/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8216;m off to Readercon 21. I wrote about the conference last year, but the big difference for me is that I am this year&#8217;s Program Chair, which means I&#8217;m in charge of the content creation and scheduling processes. It&#8217;s a job that has consumed every available moment of my life since May, which explains why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock That Font</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/06/11/rock-that-font/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend and reader of this blog sent me this email about a month ago: About the typography of rock album covers: http://rockthatfont.com/ I have never seen a website that seems more precisely designed for [you] — except that there are no recipes, alas. A visit to the site confirmed his description; it was as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mellodrama</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2010/02/03/mellodrama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The flutes that open &#8220;Strawberry Fields Forever&#8221; and &#8220;Stairway to Heaven,&#8221; the strings in&#8221;Nights in White Satin&#8221; — these are sounds you know by heart. What you may not know is that they were played on a keyboard instrument called the Mellotron. When I was a high school prog music geek with a crappy band, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alton and Me</title>
		<link>http://blog.belm.com/2009/11/13/alton-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it&#8217;s time to prepare the family Thanksgiving meal this year, I&#8217;ll start by thawing the frozen bird in cold running water the morning before. I&#8217;ll let the turkey sit in a big cooler full of a spiced brine and ice overnight before roasting it unstuffed. I&#8217;ll make a cornbread pudding and cranberry-orange-ginger dipping sauce [...]]]></description>
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