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         <title>This week&apos;s &quot;Best of Fat City&quot;</title>
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 ​It doesn't seem possible that the Monte Cristo sandwich received not one, but two mentions in Fat City this week -- as the subject of this week's Where is it? question and as a menu...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:30:13 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Now you have plans for the weekend </title>
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         ​You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved.The Hen House Holiday Celebration -- a benefit for Harvesters -- runs from Friday (10 ...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:10 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>7-Eleven makes its own wine </title>
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         ​America gets blamed for a lot of things, and now we can add to the list 7-Eleven's decision to produce wine. 7-Eleven and 7-Eleven Japan will stock stores with Yosemite Road Chardonnay and ...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:30 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Are processed foods just sad sandwiches? </title>
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         ​Everyone has a moment when they grab a meal from the freezer or stare at that half-eaten package of hot dogs and think -- am I really going to eat this? According to the BBC, a new study su...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:30:50 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Burger truisms </title>
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         ​The rules for burgers haven't been established, because the burger sits at the uneasy intersection of gourmet food and fast food, and we keep changing the definition of a burger. The veggie...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:15:55 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Back in the kitchen: Max Chao</title>
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 ​Last year, Max Chao was working as general manager for the newly opened Masalas Authentic Indian Diner at 91st and Metcalf in Overland Park. Masalas had opened in the spot where Cha...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:28:25 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>An etiquette guide for servers: Redux </title>
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         ​The New York Times blog You're The Boss is back with the second half of its "100 things a restaurant staffer should never do." And although author Bruce Buschel suggests that these are mere...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:45:51 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Ex-employees charged with poisoning salsa at Mi Ranchito</title>
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         Justin Kendall has the story of two former employees accused of poisoning the salsa at Mi Ranchito in Lenexa over on the Plog. Husband-and-wife duo Arnoldo Bazan, 30, and Yini De La Torre, 1...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:28:02 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Breakfast Buffet: Friday, November 6</title>
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          Stopping in at Los Corrals brings praise for the tacos and a solid Indiana Jones joke. [Lunch Blog KC]A photo tour and recap of the Trappist Beer Dinner at McCoy's Public House. [McCoy's vi...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:02:29 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>It&apos;s the ice that makes the drink </title>
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         ​I never knew how much ice could matter until I was given the choice of crushed or cubed. After that, my eyes were opened to the possibility that the solid in my drink mattered as much as th...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:22 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Restaurant folks always band together</title>
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 ​Back in the early 1980s, Tom Damico was a waiter, serving crepes at the old Magic Pan restaurant in Seville Square on the Country Club Plaza. One of his Magic Pan co-workers, Sherri...]]></description>
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         <title>Top 10 soups in Kansas City </title>
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​Soup is the ultimate comfort food in winter. There's something about a warm bowl and cold weather that just feels right. Perhaps it stretches back to the days when Julia Child used to ...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:01:49 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Where is it? It&apos;s here!</title>
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​Earlier this week, in honor of National Sandwich Day, we asked where one could find the tasty Monte Cristo sandwich pictured above. All the guesses were correct -- it's the sandwich at ...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:45:09 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Mix it up at Anthony&apos;s on November 18</title>
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         &nbsp;







​Anthony Spino III, who with his brother Vito runs the family's Italian restaurant, Anthony's,&nbsp;at 701 Grand, has a deal for you this month: Bring twenty bucks and a packag...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:05:27 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>End a food fight with this marshmallow gun </title>
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         ​It's nice to see that mankind has begun using technology for critical purposes, like finally improving on the marshmallow gun. For too long we've been stuck with the homemade version, hasti...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:15:58 -0600</pubDate>
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