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		<title>Maine Whoopie Pie Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is official. We in Maine will have a Whoopie Pie Day. Mark your calendars for the Fourth Saturday in June; this year it falls on June 26, 2010. Amos Orcutt, head of the University of Maine Foundation, sent out an email announcement saying that Governor John Baldacci &#8220;has committed to proclaiming the fourth Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sardines Secret History</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last sardine cannery in the U.S. located at Prospect Harbor here in Maine is facing closure, not so much because they are less popular, but because of the herring fishery’s hard times. Sardines were among some of the earliest canned foods produced in America...]]></description>
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		<title>Whoopie Pie Proposed as Maine’s Official State Dessert</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amos Orcutt, President of the University of Maine Foundation, has written Governor Baldacci suggesting that legislation be passed this session declaring the Whoopie Pie as Maine’s Official State Dessert.
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		<title>The First (Locovore) Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practically speaking, almost everyone four hundred years ago was a locovore. And sure enough, in the autumn of 1621, the Plymouth colonists had enough local fare to celebrate a traditional harvest festival similar to ones they had observed in old England.]]></description>
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		<title>Baked Beans: What You Need to Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two things at least that you need to know about baked beans in Maine. One is that they ought to be made from large, and preferably colorful, Maine-grown beans like Jacobs Cattle, Soldier, Yellow Eye. The only smallish bean is the small all-brown Marifax beloved Down East.]]></description>
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		<title>Community Cookbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community cookbooks are recipe collections assembled by charitable organizations and sold to raise money for their cause. Some of the earliest appeared in the 1860s but during the 20th century thousands and thousands were made and sold.]]></description>
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		<title>Edna St. Vincent Millay&#8217;s Favorite Maine Foods</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in mid-coast Maine (Rockland, to be precise) and lived in New York
for many years, but traveled a bit around the country reading her poetry. In 1932, she visited in a private home in Paris where a Parisian commented that America had such bad food. Millay defended her country’s fare...]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Booker Stew</title>
		<link>http://blog.mainefoodandlifestyle.com/2009/05/joe-booker-stew.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I checked all my Maine cookbooks for Joe Booker stew -- community cookbooks, Cooking Downeast and all---no Joe Booker. How popular Joe Booker stew is Maine-wide is my question.
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		<title>The Whoopie Pie Papers, Another Installment</title>
		<link>http://blog.mainefoodandlifestyle.com/2009/04/the-whoopie-pie-papers-another-installment.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“My memory takes me back over seven decades when a boy could buy a Whoopie Pie and a bottle of Moxie for about 25¢ and share it with his best girl."
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		<title>Potatoes, Oats, Bacon and the Irish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandy Oliver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is amazing what you can do with potatoes, oats, and cabbage and whatever bits of bacon or sausage you might be able to get your hands on. The Irish were historically very good at it. They had to be.
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