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	<title>Connecticut Foodnotes &#187; Bob DeZinno, Publisher</title>
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		<title>Connecticut Restaurant Week, October 4 – 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob DeZinno, Publisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the big one, and it&#8217;s next week. In Connecticut, we have come to love our restaurant weeks… in New Haven, Westport, Hamden, Hartford… to name but a few. Favorite restaurants get jammed with happy diners, bustling servers, chefs and bartenders, and grinning owners. Connecticut Restaurant Week, sponsored by the Connecticut Restaurant Association, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hartford-Area Restaurants Step Up To Aid Manchester Shooting Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a way to help the victims of the Hartford Distributors, Inc. tragedy.  During the month of August, several Hartford area establishments that we know of will donate 50 cents from every tall beer sold to the Hartford Distributors Memorial Fund. The restaurants include all CT Max Restaurant Group restaurants (Max Downtown, Max Fish, Max&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Tavola&#8217;s Nick Mancini Buys Mushrooms From A &#8220;Farm&#8221; In Waterbury… Yes, Waterbury!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob DeZinno, Publisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chef Nicola&#8217;s most recent blog post tells of a mushroom farm, deep in the cellar of an old factory building, that&#8217;s growing some of the most beautiful colored oyster mushrooms anywhere. Conecticut Chefs, take note! read » » »]]></description>
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		<title>RestaurantsCT.com July Special At CT FoodMall&#8230; 50% Off Real Gift Cards. Now Get 25% Off Your Order!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RestaurantsCT.com July special at CTFood Mall&#8230; save 50% on REAL Gift Cards (no exclusions, no requirements) to great restaurants. NOW get 25% OFF your order with this code: &#8220;july&#8221; now through the end of the month. Put on you favorite pair of jeans and most comfortable flip-flops, get in the car with your main squeeze, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World-Famous Pepe&#8217;s Pizza Celebrates 85 Years!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob DeZinno, Publisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eighty-five years ago, Frank Pepe began selling his popular &#8220;tomato pies&#8221; in New Haven, and that simple venture grew to become the world famous Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana on Wooster Street. A few years back, the Pepe family began to recreate the exact recipe, coal ovens and baking methods in Fairfield, Manchester, Mohegan Sun, and Yonkers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taste Of The Nation Returns To Hartford On May 6th</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob DeZinno, Publisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, May 6, 2010, 6 pm – 9 pm Share Our Strength&#8217;s Taste of the Nation returns to Hartford to benefit &#8220;Foodshare,&#8221; &#8220;Hartford Food System,&#8221; and &#8220;End Hunger Connecticut!&#8221; Hartford’s event features the finest local, regional and national chefs, restaurants, wine, beer and liquor merchants serving tastes of their finest selections. Silent and live auctions feature fine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbone&#8217;s, Hartford&#8211;Classic, Timeless… And The &#8220;Roman Dinner&#8221; Is Back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob DeZinno, Publisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an e-mail blast from Carbone&#8217;s on Friday announcing the return of their once-famous &#8220;Seven Course Roman Dinner.&#8221; It was a mainstay at Carbone&#8217;s for years, when the Carl Carbone/Gaetano Carbone generation was at the helm&#8230; and now Vincent Carbone has decided to bring it back. I had promised Chef Noel Jones of Hartford&#8217;s Polytechnic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Summer Saturday Evening At Litchfield&#8217;s West Street Grill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While restaurantsCT.com&#8217;s Executive Editor Frank Cohen is busy painting the Capitol City red for &#8220;Hartford&#8217;s Restaurant Week,&#8221; Paula and I decided to head to the hills… the Litchfield Hills. Truly, when thinking of Litchfield, one can&#8217;t help but to think of the West Street Grill. So, for this sojourn into the Northwest Corner, the West [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Follow-Up To Our July 4th Celebrations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob DeZinno, Publisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Cisek, my friend and fellow faculty member at Naugatuck Valley Community College, sent this today with the suggestion that we share it with a few people. So, here it is: A true &#8220;Welcome Home&#8221; to a HERO. Killed in action the week before, the body of Staff Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana Opening July 1 At Mohegan Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of a private tour of Pepe&#8217;s construction progress today at Mohegan Sun, courtesy of my long-time friend, Gary Crowder, Executive VP Resort Operations. Other than the likely long wait in line for America&#8217;s best pizza, I am looking forward to the opening. Last we heard, it will open to the public [...]]]></description>
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