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		<title>Foodie Media 101: Eat all about it</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Monday night at 7, Japanese TV viewers are treated to the sight of comedians being locked inside a fast-food restaurant. Formica tables take the place of iron bars, and instead of three square meals a day the cast is fed a steady diet of the shop&#8217;s specialties — tonkatsu breaded pork cutlets, donburi rice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snacking on squid guts and soybeans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[izakaya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doritos and Budweiser, canapes and Champagne, jamon and Tempranillo — when it comes to happy hour, everyone has their favorite combination of booze and umami-infused treats. ]]></description>
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		<title>White paper chronicles rise of ramen worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramen&#8217;s rise to global prominence has taken many forms: Japanese noodle shops debuting to great acclaim overseas, from Sydney to Honolulu to London; the proliferation of English-language ramen blogs; international chefs incorporating elements of the dish into their cuisine. Now, the worldwide interest in ramen has been captured in an official study. Yahoo Japan, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overseas restaurants set up shop in Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Call it the Pancake Revolution. During the past five years, Japanese diners have become enamored with inventive takes on classic Western breakfast dishes. Unlike many homegrown culinary trends, though, this movement is being driven by big-name chefs and dining groups arriving from overseas with their sensibilities &#8212; and menus &#8212; intact. The emergence of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food festivals: all yesterday&#8217;s parties</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The best of 2012 The inaugural Tama Geta Shoku no Saiten in Hachioji offered locavores a chance to sample the creative cuisine of western Tokyo. Thirty vendors showed off dishes such as motsu yaki-udon, a bowl of beef tripe and noodles from the town of Mizuho in Nishitama, and the &#8220;Tokyo-X&#8221; hot dog, a mammoth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the ambassadors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In these times of economic hardship and political tension, the Yahoo! Japan Ramen project proves that a humble noodle can help bring people together. The project, launched this summer with the goal of promoting ramen around the world, has completed its first phase: selecting nine Japan-based foreigners who, over the coming months, will spread the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s white-collar feeding grounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget izakaya, soba restaurants and divey Chinese eateries &#8212; if you really want to see salarymen in mass munching mode, catch them in their natural habitat at the office shokud&#333; (cafeteria), where colleagues rub shoulders daily over a tray of freshly made rations. Besides delivering sustenance to the world&#8217;s busiest worker bees, the spots featured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women &#8212; the essential B-ky&#363; ingredient</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most welcome things about the B-ky&#363; gurume (B-grade gourmet) boom is that it&#8217;s rescued dishes such as ramen and katsudon from the clutches of salarymen. The down-home cooking that constitutes the bulk of the B-ky&#363; menu is now widely appreciated as an expression of local tastes and culinary traditions. It&#8217;s not surprising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversifying Japan&#8217;s biggest food festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From its origins as a regional festival in the backwaters of Aomori Prefecture, the B-1 Grand Prix has attained a status of Fuji Rock-like proportions. The seven-year-old event, which attracts enthusiasts of local cooking from around Japan, almost single-handedly kick-started the country&#8217;s obsession with B-kyu gurume (B-grade gourmet). The last two editions, in Kanagawa and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to ramen land</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Trautlein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I heard that ramen had become popular in my hometown a few years ago, I can&#8217;t say I was surprised. We New Yorkers, after all, consider ourselves aficionados of down-home, stick-to-the-ribs cooking. Hot-dog carts, takeout Chinese joints, 24-hour delis and hole-in-the-wall falafel shops all help fuel our around-the-clock lifestyle. Ramen fits right into this [...]]]></description>
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