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		<title>Armenian Soul Food: Dolma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was perfect for making dolma. It was slightly sunny, but more dreary and windy. Time moves strange at the end of the year, partly due to things winding down and the fact that it&#8217;s completely dark by 5 p.m. There&#8217;s no equilibrium, no balance, or center. Sometimes you need the right dish to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture for Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, every Sunday night I tend to gravitate towards browsing (while weeping) Anthropologie&#8217;s online store. It comes somewhere before I head to bed and after I&#8217;ve had my last cup of tea. Last week, at the same time,  I was hell bent on ordering the most beautiful quilt cover I had ever seen. I put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pumpkin Pie, Middle East Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you cross an American fall classic with delicacies from the Middle East? Pumpkin pie with Medjool dates, raisins and walnuts, of course. I was trying to experiment with one of my favorite seasonal treats and came up with this, thanks to my sister who suggested the dates. The crust and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pistachio Saffron Meringue, or the Dance of Food, Politics and Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something so soothing and calming, and yet so manic and nerve wrecking about baking. You can follow a recipe, with the right measurements, a hint of this, a teaspoon of that, but somewhere between the flour and sugar, things can go wrong. Kind of like life. But then, when you achieve greatness and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writepudding.com/2011/11/pistachio-saffron-meringue-or-the-dance-of-food-politics-and-culture/</link>
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		<title>Memory Soup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After several published stories, nights out with some of the most amazing people I&#8217;ve met in my life, copious amounts of homemade mulberry vodka, a neo-pagan festival near a 4500-year-old archeological site,  traveling miles upon miles of sometimes stomach turning roads on a fold out chair while a toddler threw up on me, rescuing three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writepudding.com/2011/10/memory-soup/</link>
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		<title>Postcard from Yerevan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, world. I&#8217;ve been in Armenia for slightly over a month, although it feels much longer than that. Every day is an adventure, good or bad. Every day the heat gets more unbearable than the day before, but the nights are burning here, too, with love and laughter until the morning hours. Time moves strangely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writepudding.com/2011/07/postcard-from-yerevan/</link>
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		<title>The Yerevan Street Shoe Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting things I&#8217;ve noticed since I&#8217;ve been in Yerevan is how amazingly much of the country&#8217;s women walk the streets with 4 to 5-inch heels without wincing. In their finest clothes and jewels, they put on their towering shoes and parade effortlessly on the (sometimes unstable) cobblestone streets of this small [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writepudding.com/2011/06/the-yerevan-street-shoe-project/</link>
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		<title>Macbook Gets Stolen, Social Media Saves the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Joshua Kaufman&#8216;s Macbook got stolen in March, he did what any sensible person would do: go to the police. But that obviously didn&#8217;t work out, because two months later he still hadn&#8217;t seen any progress in getting his computer back. So he did what any person who wants to inspire change in this day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writepudding.com/2011/06/macbook-gets-stolen-social-media-saves-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Images of Iran From Newsha Takavolian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just learned about the work of Iranian photographer Newsha Takavolian. Her work has been published in the likes of Time and Newsweek, and her images of women are striking. She has a new exhibition called &#8220;Listen,&#8221;were she photographed female singers who are not allowed to sing, perform or record CD&#8217;s because of Islamic law in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://writepudding.com/2011/06/images-of-iran-from-newsha-takavolian/</link>
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		<title>London: Hijab Street Fashion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I look through old i.d. photos of my mother, aunts and grandmothers collecting dust in shoe boxes from a time in Iran where hiding in the basement after hearing air raid sirens was normal life for a while, I am fascinated with their black, plain roosaris, the Farsi word for hijab. Though Los Angeles [...]]]></description>
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