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		<title>Taking a Purposeful Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The writer Douglas Adams once said, “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” My own personal deadlines have been whooshing past, which is why I have decided to take a sabbatical from blog writing in order to finish a book that is my current labor of love. Its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2012/04/24/taking-a-purposeful-break/</link>
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		<title>Food Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us accept that we live in a world that isn&#8217;t what it once was. Our climate seems to be changing. Oil has peaked or is close to it. The resources we count on to live as we do are in peril. And even though I&#8217;m woefully ignorant of political matters and historical matters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2012/02/11/food-security/</link>
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		<title>Cooking and Gratitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Expressing thanks for our many blessings, chief among them good and ample food, should come naturally. But in our American world of plenty, it can be hard to feel honest-to-goodness gratitude when we sit down to eat. Few of us are wondering whether there will be food on our plates tomorrow; the only real issue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2011/12/23/cooking-up-gratitude/</link>
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		<title>Good Snacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having choices feels good, and options can free us. But in the realm of snack foods, we may have experienced too much of a good thing: more choices than ever before, with more highly-refined, processed foods among them. Every grocery and convenience store has shelves filled with snacks and prepared foods. Nearly all are made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2011/11/20/good-snacks/</link>
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		<title>Good Snack Recipes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are several good snack recipes that will give you a lift when you&#8217;ve fallen low. All can be made ahead so they are ready when you need them. Roasted Cashews Yield: 1 cup Ingredients 1 cup raw cashews 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt Recipe 1. Preheat oven to 325 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2011/11/20/good-snack-recipes/</link>
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		<title>Fad Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The truth is so often the reverse of what has been told to us by our culture that we cannot turn our heads far enough around to see it.&#8221; Howard Zinn Change is a norm we have come to accept and, within the food industry, change is the lifeblood of profit growth. For growth to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2011/09/12/fad-foods/</link>
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		<title>My Backyard Hens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave birth to my first daughter when I was 27 years-old and, according to an invisible cosmic plan, every seven years I welcomed another daughter into the world. With my youngest about to turn seven, and without any conscious pining for new life, I came up with the idea&#8211;perfectly on cue&#8211;of expanding my brood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2011/07/07/my-backyard-hens/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Egg Labels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s worth taking a moment to consider how the tending of hens, our most abundant and reliable egg &#8220;producers,&#8221; has evolved in past decades because it connects to the quality of the eggs we consume. Background Factory farming began in the 1920s, and the timing is meaningful. This was just after the discovery of vitamins [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2011/07/07/understanding-egg-labels/</link>
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		<title>The Allure of Summer Pickles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might feel as I do, that as the pace of our days has quickened, we rarely make room for anticipation in our lives. Experiences move past us one after another, with little time to hope or wonder about the future, and even less time to reflect on pleasures of the past. Yet in our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2011/05/23/the-allure-of-summer-pickles/</link>
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		<title>Pickle-Making Wisdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Based on many summer days spent making pickles in the kitchen, here are my hard-won pickle-making tips: It is best to make pickles from small cucumbers, usually Kirby, that are the freshest you can find. If they are not recently picked, soak them in cold water to revive them. Fresh Kirbys are easy to get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ellensfoodandsoul.com/blog/2011/05/23/pickle-making-wisdom/</link>
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