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		<title>Some good news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am more than grateful to the Sydney Morning Herald (indeed, I am grateful to Sydney for being such a cheering city) for a round-up of stuff we didn&#8217;t know about so-called superfoods.
Bacon and ice cream have significant benefits while apples may cause you to spend more time at the dentist&#8217;s. Or so they say. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/24/some-good-news/</link>
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		<title>Was everything alright?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time yesterday with a gathering of restaurant and bar people and heard some interesting stories of how the recession is biting. We can take the pressure on margins as read, of course, but customer behaviour seems to be changing. None of my informants had been thrown from the bonnet of a customer&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/24/was-everything-alright/</link>
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		<title>The end of Cadbury&#8217;s as we know it&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cadbury&#8217;s, as you will know by now, has rejected the multi-billion dollar hostile bid from Kraft. But Kraft seem very determined and have upped the offer. Hersheys is counter-bidding. Could this be the end of Cadbury&#8217;s as we know it? Chocosnobs may sneer at Dairy Milk (I like the odd square with some scalding hot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/23/the-end-of-cadburys-as-we-know-it/</link>
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		<title>Tar in a jar?</title>
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This morning dawned dark, wet and windy. And thanks to the howling gale that used our bedroom chimney as a kind of&#8230;er&#8230;wind instrument throughout the small hours, not much sleep was to be had. We live on a hill so we can watch the plain below getting flooded, but the downside is that we are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/19/tar-in-a-jar/</link>
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		<title>Not a time to worry about Michelin stars&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a report from the Restaurants Association of Ireland one in three Irish restaurants are in grave danger of closing. It also confirms what many of us have believed for quite a while: that some 80% of restaurants are trading at a loss.
The RAI are not putting forward any glib solutions to the problems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/16/restaurants-on-the-brink/</link>
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		<title>700 things we shouldn&#8217;t do in a restaurant&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen the list of 100 things that restaurant staff should never do. Now restaurant staff have hit back with 700 things that we customers should never do. Yeah, 700. I think there&#8217;s just a hunt of an imbalance here. Or are we customers (you know, the people who actually keep restaurants in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/14/700-things-we-shouldnt-do-in-a-restaurant/</link>
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		<title>The Dubliner decides&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems a bit incongruous. Here I am sitting in the Crawford Gallery Cafe in Cork, and enjoying the essential Ballymaloeness of the place (that lemon cake with butter icing, for example) and browsing through The Dubliner 100 Best Restaurants 2010 which is just out. Maybe it&#8217;s a good way to contemplate Dublin, from somewhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/14/the-dubliner-decides/</link>
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		<title>Iveagh League</title>
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My first visit to The Storehouse at the Guinness Brewery in St James&#8217;s Gate (or &#8220;The Brewery as my grandfather called it) this evening and I have to say I&#8217;m not surprised that this is Ireland&#8217;s leading tourist attraction. The self-guided tour is quite brilliant and the Gravity Bar at the top, with panoramic view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/13/iveagh-in-premier-league/</link>
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		<title>Coffee?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like coffee. I like it too much, indeed, and have to ration myself. What kind of coffee? An espresso after a meal, a proper cappucino (strong coffee, shaving foam on top), turbo-charged plunger with hot milk on Saturday morning, an occasional macchiato as a pick-me-up. I&#8217;m not a coffee snob and can&#8217;t detect those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/12/156/</link>
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		<title>For those who wait&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just come across 100 tips (of the non-financial kind) that all waiting staff should bear in mind. It&#8217;s an American list, mind you, so there are a few that relate specifically to that culture but most of them are very sound (and some of them are very obvious). Any suggestions for additions or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/megabites/2009/11/11/for-those-who-wait/</link>
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