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		<title>Gear up for the holidays with sweet events</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why mess up your kitchen making holiday sweets when you can use somebody else&#8217;s? Local culinarians invite you to come into their kitchens for sweet cooking parties. Chocolatier Katherine Duncan hosts a truffle-making party from 6:30 to 9 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 8, at Katherine Anne Confections in Logan Square. Appetizers, wine and chocolate sampling are included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Named for slugger or president’s kid, candy is Chicago’s baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chocolate-covered peanuts, caramel and nougat ... the Baby Ruth bar has been an American favorite since Chicago's Curtiss Candy Co. introduced the confection in 1921. ]]></description>
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		<title>10 Chicago Mother&#8217;s Day freebies</title>
		<link>http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2011/05/03/10-chicago-mothers-day-freebies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cherishing your mother needn't break the budget. Just about every restaurant in town is offering brunch or dinner specials for Mother's Day, Sunday, May 8, but these sweeten the pot with free items for Mom. ]]></description>
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		<title>Leah&#8217;s Notebook: Comings, goings, this and that</title>
		<link>http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/02/19/leahs-notebook-comings-goings-this-and-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MANNY&#8217;S! On this day in 1942, Jack Raskin opened what was to become Chicago&#8217;s foremost delicatessen, Manny&#8217;s Coffee Shop &#038; Deli in the South Loop. Going stronger than ever, Manny&#8217;s is now run by Jack&#8217;s grandson Ken and great-grandsons Danny and Matt Raskin. PUBURBAN NEWS. Bob McCullough&#8217;s Pub &#038; Billiards has opened in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eat this! Rich chocolate pudding, a decadent dessert for Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decadently rich, port-infused chocolate pudding Chef <b>Kendal Duque</b> recently served at Lakeview's new <a title="Dining Chicago: Cuna" href="http://www.diningchicago.com/2008/show_banner.php?restID=4410&#038;sCate2=" target="_blank"><b>Cuna</b></a> restaurant deserves a fanciful moniker. It's a perfect dessert for Valentine's Day!]]></description>
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		<title>Six heartfelt (chocolate) traditions for Valentine&#8217;s Day in Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/02/09/six-heartfelt-chocolate-traditions-for-valentines-day-in-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well before we were married, my husband, that crafty man, established a sweet Valentine&#8217;s Day custom. Each year on Feb. 14, he gives me a heart-shaped box of chocolates. (Then he eats half of them.) It&#8217;s a tradition. As much as I might yearn for, say, diamonds or rubies, I know I can expect that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willy Wonka lives in Chicagoland</title>
		<link>http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2009/10/30/willy-wonka-lives-in-chicagoland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some, Halloween is all about creepy crawlies and silly costumes. Just give me the candy. Of course, Halloween candy makes me think of the creepiest candymaker who never was, Willy Wonka. Willy Wonka may be as British as his creator, Roald Dahl, but the Wonka Candy Factory is in west suburban Itasca. Wonka was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoveBar&#8217;s sweet Chicago success story</title>
		<link>http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2009/10/19/dovebars-sweet-chicago-success-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;Imagine your life in chocolate,&#8221; says Mars Inc., promoting Dove Chocolate Discoveries, its direct-sales scheme for peddling its confections like Tupperware or Avon products. The company is recruiting chocolate ladies at two &#8220;Girls&#8217; Nights Out&#8221; this week where women can indulge in free chocolate martinis and smoothies and listen to the pitch. The events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace, love and chocolate with Gail Ambrosius</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace, Love, Chocolate from Gail Ambrosius Luscious handmade chocolates from Gail Ambrosius are worth traveling to her Madison, Wisc., shop for, but you don&#8217;t have to. Eno at the InterContinental hosts &#8220;A Night With Gail Ambrosius&#8221; from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 25. Ambrosius will feature single-origin chocolates from Central and South America and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Night out: Thursday chocolate and &#8216;Chocolat&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2009/05/18/night-out-thursday-chocolate-and-chocolat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah A. Zeldes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The historic Drake Hotel&#8217;s gorgeous Palm Court serves up a luscious night out Thursday, May 21, with rich chocolate fondue and a screening of the delicious 2000 film &#8220;Chocolat.&#8221; Packed with mouth-watering imagery, the award-winning film chronicles the story of a single mother who moves to a small town in rural France with her 6-year-old [...]]]></description>
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