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		<title>The weird and wacky world of chocolate sculptures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made a few chocolate sculptures. They make me uncomfortable. The entire time that I&#8217;m making them, I feel like a fraud. Like someone will come up behind me and whisper, &#8220;You don&#8217;t know what the hell you&#8217;re doing, do you?&#8221; And the answer, usually, is no. There are some pictures in this post about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1866&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Formative moments: pain au chocolat, in Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was 15, I went on a school trip to France. Our first stop was in Paris, where we stayed at a cute old hotel near the opera house. There was no elevator, so we carried our overstuffed suitcases up and down five flights of narrow stairs with much complaining and giggling. I&#8217;m sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1685&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lemon Meringue Tart from Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We interrupt your regularly scheduled chocolate programming to bring you this story from my early days in culinary school. For the most part, I really enjoyed culinary school. However, there were a few points when I felt like throwing my hands up, chucking a copper bowl across the kitchen and leaving. This was, quite possibly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1671&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty pleasure: fun chocolate for grownups</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone needs a guilty pleasure. Most people’s guilty pleasure is chocolate. So what’s a chocolate connoisseur to do? If your everyday pleasure is chocolate, how can it possibly get any guiltier? I know some chocolate snobs who swear by milk chocolate with almonds. There’s something comforting about the crunchiness. Milk chocolate with hazelnuts, too. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1661&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working as a chocolatier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people in this world: those who are cut out for food service, and those who aren’t. I tried to be in the first category, but I know that I really belong in the second. I started as a pastry chef, working in bakeries, pastry shops, restaurants, and hotels. Wherever I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1417&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I ate last week</title>
		<link>http://thewelltemperedchocolatier.com/2009/08/17/what-i-ate-last-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: this post is not about chocolate. I&#8217;m sorry. I know you&#8217;re all eagerly awaiting another snarky post about some chocolatier gone wrong, but you&#8217;ll just have to wait. In the meantime, I present you with a list of things that I ate last week while showing a friend around the city. Split this list [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1391&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bribery</title>
		<link>http://thewelltemperedchocolatier.com/2009/07/14/bribery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like an animal at the zoo, or maybe the aquarium, in that I have to bribe myself to do things. This is particularly pronounced on beautiful sunny days when I&#8217;d rather be running around outside, but am sitting inside staring woefully at a computer screen. You know how you can train a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1338&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate and coffee</title>
		<link>http://thewelltemperedchocolatier.com/2009/07/06/chocolate-and-coffee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a pastry chef&#8217;s secret that if you&#8217;re making something chocolate-flavoured, a little bit of coffee acts like an invisible flavour enhancer. This is true for chocolate cake, chocolate icing, chocolate pudding, chocolate pastry, chocolate pudding pie, chocolate souffle&#8230;wait, what was I talking about? Oh, right. Chocolate and coffee. When used properly in chocolate recipes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1323&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If this is bad, I don&#8217;t want to be good.</title>
		<link>http://thewelltemperedchocolatier.com/2009/05/13/if-this-is-bad-i-dont-want-to-be-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 01:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, the universe is subtle and coy. And other days, it literally hits you over the head and asks why you have your eyes closed. I was walking home last night and had an insatiable craving for a grilled cheese sandwich. Now, I went on a grilled cheese kick about a month ago, where I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=1206&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolove toffee &amp; almonds in milk chocolate</title>
		<link>http://thewelltemperedchocolatier.com/2009/04/12/chocolove-toffee-and-almonds-in-milk-chocolate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eagranie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chocolove was an exhibitor at the IACP last week, and generously donated a few samples for ye olde blog. I picked up a few more flavours here and there, since this Boulder-based company has its wares in most of the gourmet food shops here. I&#8217;m going to take a brief interlude to tell you about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thewelltemperedchocolatier.com&blog=4948096&post=998&subd=thewelltemperedchocolatier&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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