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		<title>Spooning on Valentine’s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title caught your eye, didn’t it? This post is rated “XS” for Extra Sexy, the annual DCF Love Month sexy post. I’m distraught when I find out that chocolatier Benoit Nicolay has moved to Singapore. I’ve fallen hard for his Chocolate Spoons, one of his big-seller creations. The business has been taken over by his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Favorite Queso de Bola Food for the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course these foods aren’t limited to Christmas, but they seem even more delicious when eaten at this time of year. I ask several people what their favorite foods with queso de bola (QdB) are. The initial reactions are almost always similar: a sharp intake of breath with a simultaneous closing of the eyes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cookies &amp; Lace</title>
		<link>http://dessertcomesfirst.com/archives/8138/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the thinnest cookies I may ever eat. These cookies are so thin that they’re probably not even a millimeter thick. It’s an astounding fact made even more so when I realize that there are two cookies that make up one whole. Yes, it’s a sandwich cookie. Karen Murphy makes these web-like wonders and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gift List Purveyor #18: John Sta. Cruz of Cake Planet</title>
		<link>http://dessertcomesfirst.com/archives/7949/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Dessert Comes First, it&#8217;s about making sweet wishes come true. Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . My feature on John Sta. Cruz’s Cake Planet is one of this year’s most popular and commented-on posts. Even now, I have people telling me that “… I’m from the south and I didn’t know until I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gift List Purveyor #16: Charley Braga of Crust</title>
		<link>http://dessertcomesfirst.com/archives/7926/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between cake and pie, I will always choose pie. These pies. Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . In the play Boston Marriage by David Mamet, there’s a quote that sums up why I love pie so passionately: “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”  Pie to me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gift List Purveyor #14: Addie Wijangco</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I must have been high when I shot these photos. Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . They say that a person eats with the eyes first but I could make an equally impassioned argument for people who eat with their noses first. Consider Addie Wijangco’s ensaymada. As I’m unwrapping and preparing these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gift List Purveyor #9: Jenny Silayan of Sugarbee</title>
		<link>http://dessertcomesfirst.com/archives/7793/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her name might not be familiar to you at first, but that’s because there’s been a name change. Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors Sugarbee is the former Fudgies by Jenny S., maker of those tempting molten lava cakes in the shape of a huge flower, the result of baking them in those aluminum ensaymada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gift List Purveyor #8: Gene Gonzalez of Café Ysabel &amp; Pasteleria Mallorca</title>
		<link>http://dessertcomesfirst.com/archives/7778/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Must we stick to dessert?” Chef Gene Gonzalez asks me. After much discussion over dessert (!) we decide to stick to the sweets. Previously featured Christmas Gift List purveyors . Everybody knows who Gene Gonzalez is: chef extraordinaire, wine connoisseur, cookbook author, and owner of his own cooking school among many other things. Chef Gene [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gift List Purveyor #6: Tina Diaz of Taza Platito</title>
		<link>http://dessertcomesfirst.com/archives/7743/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Purveyors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Bakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banana cream pie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brownies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Gift List]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tina is special to me because we started our food careers at the same magazine and as a food writer, I’ve gone on to write about her illustrious desserts. Tina already had her dessert business Taza Platito when we were both contributing to FOOD magazine (ABS-CBN Publishing) some years ago. She was and still is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Gift List Purveyor #5: Millet Soberano of Bean &amp; Baker</title>
		<link>http://dessertcomesfirst.com/archives/7730/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lori</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millet Soberano is a culinary magician who makes magical things with chocolate. They stare up at me like seashells floating on a plate of white. Brown, like the color of chocolate smoke and as deeply aromatic. They’re called madeleines, individual scallop shells of sponge cake that are “…so strictly pleated outside and so sensual inside,” [...]]]></description>
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