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<description><![CDATA[Alan Beggerow is a free lance writer on a variety of subjects.]]></description>
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<title>Mahler - Symphony No 6 'Tragic'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While Mahler was inspired in his compositions by Beethoven, Liszt, Bruckner and Wagner, like all of the masters he developed his own style of composing. He was known as one of the world's greatest opera conductors, but wrote no operas himself. He was more than a passable pianist but left no piano compositions of any consequence, likewise with his chamber music.]]></description>
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<title>Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 In E Minor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The natural gifts of any master musician need to be formed around a solid technique. The very few who are extremely gifted in composition also need plenty of room to develop their personal voice. Chopin was one of the very few that was born with genius, and he also had the good fortune of having as his first professional piano teacher a man that understood his pupil's gift straight away.]]></description>
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<title>Schumann - Piano Concerto In A Minor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Robert Schumann was a multi-talented man who was not only a fine composer and pianist, but a writer and poet as well. He began studying law but soon dropped it in favor of pursuing a career as a concert pianist. He used some sort of a contraption that spread his fingers that was supposed to give him more of a span and better finger strength and agility, but it did the opposite and gave him a permanent hand injury.]]></description>
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<title>Paganini - Caprice No. 9</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Niccolo Paganini composed his Opus 1 Caprices for solo violin between 1802 and 1817. The set of 24 were first published in 1819 and they marked a new era in violin technique. Some of Paganini's innovations in technique were hinted at earlier in the history of the violin while some seem to have originated solely with him.]]></description>
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<title>Bruckner - Symphony No 8</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As with most of his other symphonies, Bruckner rewrote the 8th, this time on the advice of Hermann Levi, the conductor that was to premiere the work. The first version of the symphony was completed in 1888 and sent to Levi and after reading through it and giving his opinion, the conductor told Bruckner that he could not "make the symphony his own". After giving it some thought, Bruckner agreed and completed his revisions of the work in 1890.]]></description>
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<title>Bartok - Concerto For Orchestra</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When his native Hungary went to the side of Nazi Germany as an ally, Bela Bartok left the country and came to New York. He was a fine pianist, and he and his wife made ends meet by giving concerts and working on translating old Hungarian books into English for Columbia University and also got a grant from the University to work on a large collection of Serbian and Croatian folk songs. There was little interest in Bartok's compositions in the U.S. and he had difficulty composing.]]></description>
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<title>Liszt - St Francis of Assisi Preaching To The Birds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Franz Liszt was a complex man. He was a member of the musical and social avant-garde of his time, thus thought nothing of living with women and having children without being married, yet he was a very religious man of traditional Catholicism. How Liszt managed to account for his behavior within his strict religious views are a marvel.]]></description>
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<title>Mendelssohn - Octet in E-Flat Major</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The career of many composers is a long road of constant growth, sometimes small, sometimes large, even sometimes a complete change in style. Beethoven's music from the very beginning of his career was different from his contemporaries, but the difference between his first symphony and his ninth, his first string quartet and his sixteenth, are huge. Mendelssohn almost seems like he was formed a complete composer from a very early age, and his style and complexity of his music didn't change dramatically his entire career.]]></description>
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<title>Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 27</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Beethoven's career took a different turn after the occupation of Vienna by Napoleon in 1805 and 1809. The stress caused by the occupation, plus his increasing deafness put serious composing on the back burner. In the years 1812 to 1814 after composing his 7th Symphony Beethoven did little composing except for a few pot boilers like Wellington's Victory and the revision of his only opera Fidelio.]]></description>
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<title>Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No 6</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  During Bach's lifetime he was an acknowledged master of the organ. He was also active as an organ consultant. He would travel and give his expert opinion to congregations on the acoustics of their church and what kind of organ would sound best in it.]]></description>
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<title>Beethoven - String Quartet No. 11 'Quartetto Serioso'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chamber music by its very nature is a more intimate form of music. While in modern times it is played in concert halls, it was originally meant for more private performance in homes and smaller recital halls. In the 19th century before recordings, music making in the home was a form of entertainment shared by many.]]></description>
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<title>History Of Aspirin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most common medications has a long and varied history. Some facts and history about Aspirin: The Father of modern Medicine Hippocrates, (the man that the Hippocratic oath is named after) wrote about pain killers in the 5th century B.C.]]></description>
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<title>Litolff - Concerto Symphonique No. 5</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Living a complicated lifestyle evidently was a part of Litolff's personality. He traveled Europe on concert tours, got married and divorced, spent time in prison, had to escape from Germany after he participated in the revolution of 1848, married a widow of a music publisher and managed the publishing firm into a successful venture, settled in Paris, was a piano teacher and conductor, was married four times - the last to a woman seventeen years old when he was 57 years old, was afflicted with rheumatism in later life but still continued to compose. It was a life...]]></description>
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<title>Moscheles - Recollections Of Ireland</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Ignaz Moscheles was a virtuoso pianist and composer that was good friends with Beethoven, mentor and friend to Mendelssohn and close associate with other Jewish musicians of the time like Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, and Ferdinand Hiller. It was Moscheles who lead the counter-offensive when Richard Wagner wrote his antisemitic pamphlet 'Jewry In Music' It seems Moscheles knew most all of the pianists of his time, and his honest and easy going disposition helped him to become friends with even some of the more modern (for his time) pianist like Liszt and Chopin. Moscheles was born in...]]></description>
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<title>Alkan - Impromptu For Pedal Piano</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Was Charles Alkan really a mystery as the pianist Ronald Smith (a champion of Alkan's works) called him in the title to his biography of the composer Alkan the Enigma? There is an essay by Stephanie McCallum, herself a pianist and champion of Alkan's works in her own right, that discusses the possibility that Alkan suffered from a form of autism or a mental illness. The fact that Alkan went into seclusion about 1848 after a brilliant start to his career as a composer and performer does beg the question.]]></description>
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<title>Vivaldi - Concerto For Sopranino Recorder</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) was an Italian violinist, priest and composer. He was born in Venice and was afflicted with what is thought to have been asthma his whole life. Because of this, he did not learn to play any wind instruments but he did become a virtuoso violinist...]]></description>
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<title>Respighi - Pines Of Rome</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936) was born in Italy and was a composer, musicologist and conductor. He learned piano and violin from his father and went on to study violin, viola and composition at the school in Bologna, Italy. After his schooling he accepted an offer to be principle violist...]]></description>
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<title>Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Beethoven's sketchbooks show that he was a very self-critical composer. Ideas came readily to him, but he was never satisfied with the first blush of inspiration. He would think about, tinker with, write, write and rewrite to try and get the best out of his initial ideas.]]></description>
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<title>Bruckner - Symphony No 7</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anton Bruckner labored long and hard before he got much recognition as a composer. He studied compulsively for many years until he was forty years old. He composed many choral pieces for the church in the beginning of his career, and finally settled on being a composer of symphonies.]]></description>
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<title>Busoni - Piano Concerto in C Major</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ferruccino Busoni (1866 - 1924) was an Italian virtuoso pianist, writer, teacher, composer and conductor. He was a child prodigy and had his first public recital at the age of seven. He conducted one of his own compositions for choir when he was twelve.]]></description>
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<title>Mozart - Fantasia In D Minor For Piano</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:37:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For any piece of music, there is only so much that can be notated on the page. It is of course the same way with language in a stage play. Stage direction can take it only so far, and to merely recite the words without the proper inflection or emotion would make for a pretty boring evening at the theater or concert hall.]]></description>
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<title>Brahms - Rhapsody For Piano in G Minor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Like many composers in the 19th century, Brahms made his reputation by playing his own and other composers pieces on the piano. From what I've read, he was not the most brilliant of pianists as far as technique, but he was very musical. In his later years he hated to practice and played the premiere of his 2nd Piano Concerto after hardly touching a piano in years.]]></description>
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<title>Dvorak - Cello Concerto</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:10:16 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 19th century musical life, the region of Germany and Austria reigned supreme. For those ambitious enough to want international recognition as a composer, the best way was to be acknowledged in Germany. All of the master composers of the 19th century had connections with Germany, if not by birth by other connections such as studying there, living there, or knowing the right people there.]]></description>
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<title>Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The truth about Tchaikovsky's 'secret' has been long known to the world since his death. The fact that he was homosexual at a time and place where it was looked upon as a very serious matter no doubt contributed to the periods of emotional fragility he had throughout his life. Tchaikovsky himself fought with his tendencies, for he knew well the consequences if they were discovered.]]></description>
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<title>Ippolitov-Ivanov - Caucasian Sketches Suite</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935) was a Russian composer, teacher and conductor. He studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and was a student of Rimsky-Korsakov.]]></description>
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<title>Liszt - Symphonic Poem 'Hamlet'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The symphonic poems of Franz Liszt have garnered their share of interpretation of meaning. Of course they are all a type of music written with a specific person, place or event in mind, program music. This type of music lends itself more to interpretation of meaning (and downright conjecture) than absolute music.]]></description>
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<title>Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No 3</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sergei Prokofiev was one of the original Russian 'bad boys' of music. His early compositions were fraught with dissonance and did not sit well with the musical establishment. But there was something more to his music than just noise and cacophony.]]></description>
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<title>Tea Brined Chicken</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  I've seen chefs on Food Network brining turkey for Thanksgiving but never tried it. People who have, swear by the method as it makes the turkey more flavorful and juicy. I saw this recipe and thought I'd give it a try for myself.]]></description>
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<title>Roussel - Symphony No. 3</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937) was a French composer and somewhat of a rarity. His first love in his youth was not music, but mathematics. He joined the French navy, and finally turned to music after he spent seven years in the navy.]]></description>
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<title>Saint-Saens - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Camille Saint-Saens was a natural musician, one of those who was born to make and create music. As he said himself, "I produce music the way an apple tree produces apples." He was a child prodigy, memorized all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas and offered the audience to choose one that he would play from memory as an encore at his debut recital in 1845 when he was ten years old.]]></description>
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<title>Beethoven - Symphony No. 7</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  With his usual Romantic hyperbole, Richard Wagner called Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 the "apotheosis of the dance". As Wagner's universe-sized ego seldom allowed him to praise a fellow composer, this remark may appear suspect.]]></description>
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<title>Glazunov - Symphony No. 1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alexander Glazunov has been called the Russian Brahms, which may or may not be a good comparison to either composer. He was one of the most remarkable child prodigies Russia ever produced. He was the son of a wealthy publisher and began piano lessons at age nine, and began composing at age eleven.]]></description>
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<title>Liszt - MaleDiction For Piano and Strings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Franz Liszt was a musical genius, as a performer on the piano, conductor of an orchestra, and as a composer. He also had a tremendous drive to succeed and be all that he could be. He knew he was blessed with talent, and he felt obligated to develop that talent as much as he could.]]></description>
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<title>Moscheles - Piano Concerto No 7 'PatheTique'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ignaz Moscheles (1794 - 1870) was a Bohemian composer and pianist. He was born in Prague and showed a remarkable musical aptitude early on. Upon the death of his father he moved to Vienna in 1808 where he completed his studies and became a well-known pianist around town.]]></description>
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<title>Herz - Piano Concerto No 1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Henri Herz (1803 - 1888) was born in Vienna but lived most of his life in France. He was a virtuoso pianist and composer, one of the most popular composers of his day. He published over 200 compositions, eight piano concertos, and the rest mostly for piano and sold more pieces than any other composer for a twelve year period in the 1820's and 1830's.]]></description>
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<title>Tcherepnin - Ten Bagatelles For Piano</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:27:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 - 1977) was Russian-born pianist and composer whose father Nicolas was a professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and also a composer. Alexander's son and grandsons are also composers.]]></description>
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<title>Bats In My Belfry</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:09:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bats are a most valuable creature of nature. One single little brown bat can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in a night. Imagine how many more bugs there'd be on those hot summer nights without bats.]]></description>
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<title>Shostakovich - Symphony No 6</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) was a Russian composer best known for his symphonies. He wrote his first symphony as a student when he was 19 in 1926. Famous conductors Bruno Walter and Leopold Stokowski both thought the first symphony a work of genius and they conducted it in Berlin and the United States respectively.]]></description>
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<title>Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No 17 in D Minor</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Among the 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies of Franz Liszt are some of his most popular pieces. Rhapsody #2 is a perennial favorite, and thanks to the treatment it got in the Warner Brothers cartoon Rhapsody Rabbit, the piece was exposed to a wide audience of adults and children. Most of the 19 Rhapsodies follow the general idea of what a rhapsody is in music: A piece in one movement, episodic and loose structured but still integrated as a whole piece, improvisatory in nature, with differing moods and colorations within the piece.]]></description>
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<title>Bruckner - Symphony No. 0</title>
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<description><![CDATA[  In the somewhat confusing world of Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896) and the numbering of his symphonies, the Symphony # 0 is actually the third symphony he wrote. The first symphony he wrote was as an assignment for his composition teacher in 1863. Bruckner rejected this work by calling it 'school work', but he did not destroy it.]]></description>
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<title>Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951) wrote this work as a string sextet at the turn of the 20th century in 1899, and it was so modern that the Vienna Music Society refused to perform it. It was premiered in 1902 by the Rose Quartet (augmented by an extra cello and viola) at the Vienna Musikverein.  Between the highly chromatic music and its subject matter, the piece stirred up a lot of controversy.]]></description>
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<title>Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 4</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Beethoven wrote his 4th piano concerto between 1805-1806. It had its public premiere in December, 1808 in Vienna at the massive concert that also had the premiere of the 5th and 6th symphonies and the Choral Fantasia as well as other pieces. It was the last time Beethoven appeared as soloist on piano with orchestra.]]></description>
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<title>Alkan - Comme Le Vent (Like The Wind)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By contemporary accounts of those that heard him play, Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888) had a technique equal to Liszt. In fact, Liszt himself said Alkan had the finest technique he had ever seen. Even after Alkan became a recluse in 1848, on the odd occasion when he would play in public he retained his technique and amazed those who heard him.]]></description>
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<title>Paderewski - Symphony in B Minor 'Polonia'</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ignancy Paderewski (1860 - 1941) was a Polish pianist, composer, and politician. He was one of the first 'superstars' of classical music that was popular with a wide audience of listeners of various tastes. He made his debut in Vienna in 1887.]]></description>
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<title>Tchaikovsky - Marche Slav</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:20:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An artist is above all a human being, perhaps a human being to the nth degree. Tchaikovsky was such a human. His music can be passionate, emotional, sometimes completely over the top.]]></description>
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<title>Buxtehude - Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne For Organ</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:50:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dieterich Buxtehude (1637? - 1707) was born in a part of Germany that was under Dutch rule, or perhaps he was born in Denmark that is now under Swedish rule. No one is sure, nor is the exact date of his birth known.]]></description>
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<title>Schoenberg - A Survivor From Warsaw</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:07:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an Austrian composer that emigrated to America to escape Nazi Germany in 1934 and became a U.S. citizen. He is most famous (some would say notorious) for developing an entirely new way of composition based on the twelve tones of the chromatic scale, the twelve tone technique.]]></description>
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<title>Balakirev - Piano Concerto No 2</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:05:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mily Balakirev (1837 - 1910) was a Russian pianist, conductor and composer. He was instrumental in creating a sense of musical nationalism in Russia in the 19th century. He promoted the music of Tchaikovsky and was the leader of the Russian group of musicians known as The Five.]]></description>
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<title>Salieri - Variations On 'La Follia'</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:05:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Antonio Salieri (1750 - 1825) was an Italian composer most known for his operas. His 50+ operas played a large part in the development of late 18th century opera along with his hundreds of religious works. Although born in Italy near Venice, he was taken to Vienna at a young age after the death of his parents.]]></description>
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<title>Mahler - Symphony No 1</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:04:29 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911) was an Austrian composer and conductor. He completed nine symphonies and left a tenth unfinished. He worked his way up through many opera houses in Europe until he became director of the Vienna Court Opera, one of the most prestigious opera houses in Europe.]]></description>
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<title>Liszt - A Faust Symphony</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:40:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) gave up the life of a traveling piano virtuoso to devote himself to composition in 1847 it was with the encouragement of the woman in his life, Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. He spent one winter with the Princess before he accepted a long-standing offer to go to Wiemar as Kapellmeister at the court there. It was during his tenure there that he wrote many of his most well known compositions for orchestra.]]></description>
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<title>Parry - Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Major</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:39:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hubert Parry (1848 -1918) was an English composer, teacher and music historian. Some of his contemporaries thought that he was the finest English composer since Purcell, but his academic duties left him little time to compose. He came from an upper middle class family and as such went to school at Eton.]]></description>
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<title>Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 2 'Funeral March'</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:33:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Arthur Rubinstein (1887 - 1982) was a Polish pianist and one of the great virtuosos of the 20th century. He was declared a child prodigy at the age of four and had perfect pitch. By the age of thirteen he had already made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic.]]></description>
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<title>Berlioz - Harold In Italy</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:32:21 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After a performance in 1833 of his Symphonie Fantastique and other works, Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) was approached by Nicolo Paganini with a request to write a piece for viola and orchestra for him. Paganini had just obtained a Stradivarius viola and wanted to show it off in a concerto. Berlioz began the concerto, but when Paganini saw the first movement he complained that there were far too many rests for the viola, that he needed to be playing constantly throughout the concerto.]]></description>
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<title>Liszt - Heroide Funebre</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:01:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Europe at the time of Franz Liszt's early adulthood was a Europe of revolution. In July, 1830 the Paris Revolution, also known as The Three Glorious Days caused the abdication of French King Charles X and brought about the ascent of Louis-Philippe from the House Of Orleans as the new constitutional monarch. Liszt was not yet 20 years old at the time, but the event inspired him to sketch out a Revolution Symphony in five movements.]]></description>
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<title>Henselt - Variations For Piano and Orchestra</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:00:27 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If there was ever a pianist afflicted with compulsive piano practicing, it had to be Adolph von Henselt (1814 - 1889), a German pianist, teacher and composer. He would practice ten hours a day, read the Bible he had on his piano music stand while he did finger exercises, and when he gave a concert he had a dummy piano offstage to practice on between the selections he played and at intermission. He practiced so much that he would dampen the strings of his piano with quills so the sound wouldn't get on his nerves.]]></description>
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<title>Beethoven - Septet in E-Flat Major</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:59:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Two major influences on Ludwig van Beethoven in his apprentice years were the two great composers of his era - Mozart and Haydn. Beethoven wanted to take lessons from Mozart and went to play for him in Vienna when Beethoven was sixteen, (with Mozart reportedly saying "watch out for that boy. One day he will give the world something to talk about") but Beethoven had to rush back to his home town of Bonn when his mother became critically ill.]]></description>
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<title>Dvorak Symphonic Poem - The Water Goblin</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:44:33 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) was a Czech composer best known for his nine symphonies, especially the 9th known as "From The New World", written while he was a music professor in New York City.  But he also wrote ten operas,  chamber music (more than forty works for string ensemble), for the piano and sacred music. Later in his career he also wrote five symphonic poems in the years 1896-1897:  The Water Goblin, The Noon Witch, The Golden Spinning Wheel, The Wild Dove and A Hero's Song.]]></description>
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<title>CPE Bach - The Symphonies For 12 Obliggato Instruments</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:22:48 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[First of all, a short thumb nail biography of the composer: Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) was the fifth child and second oldest surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was one of the composers that ushered in the classical age of Mozart and Haydn. Mozart said of him, "he is the father and we are the children."]]></description>
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<title>Waging The War On Floor Boogers</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:47:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I'm a Mr. Mom, and I'm proud of it! I'm retired from the rat race and live with a woman that has a teenage son. She works, he's in school, so it makes sense for me to do the domestic chores.]]></description>
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<title>The Accidental Discovery Of Silly Putty</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:53:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The history of Silly Putty goes back to 1940 after the Japanese invaded the rubber-producing countries of the Far East and cut off the supply to the United States. With the subsequent hampering of war production, especially for tires, gas masks, rafts and boots, the government asked American industry to develop a synthetic rubber. Here's where the story gets controversial, for there was more than one person who claimed the discovery of it.]]></description>
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<title>Asian Food Condiments And Sauces</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:55:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The practice and art of cooking in the orient utilizes a variety of combinations, textures, flavors, colors and techniques. A large part of this style of cooking has to do with sauces and condiments that are used for cooking and at the table. What follows is a short list of the more common items: Soy Sauce - Soy sauce originated in China around 3,000 years ago.]]></description>
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<title>Tasty Chicken Salad</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:45:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Who doesn't like a chicken salad sandwich for lunch on a hot summer's day, or any other day for that matter! The key to making good chicken salad is to begin imparting flavor all the way through the making of it.]]></description>
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<title>Oven Baked Chicken Parmesan</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:16:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chicken Parmesan is usually pan fried, loaded with cheese and a thick coating of bread crumbs. Use this recipe and bake it in the oven and save on calories and fat!]]></description>
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<title>Chocolate Coffee Cookies</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:36:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A flour-free, light and crispy meringue cookie that's easy to make. Be sure to store them in an air-tight container so they stay fresh longer.]]></description>
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<title>Mushrooms - Animals Or Plants?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:04:14 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[All mushrooms belong to the family of fungi, which is neither plant or animal. After continuing research there is evidence that fungi may be more closely related to animals than plants.]]></description>
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<title>Rosette Cookies</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:37:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Rosette cookies are a cookie made from very light batter that is deep fried. A rosette iron is used to make them. They are of Norwegian origin, and are made as a Christmas treat.]]></description>
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<title>Salt-Cured Salmon Salad</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:30:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Salt curing will reduce the size of the fish and concentrate the flavors. As long as the fish is rinsed very well with plenty of cool water after it is cured, it won't be overly salty in flavor.]]></description>
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<title>Cow Pie Cookies</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:22:11 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A simple, easy and quick recipe that makes a really good chocolate cookie. They are cake-like in texture, with the crunch of walnuts, the creaminess of chocolate chips and the deep chocolate flavor of cocoa powder.]]></description>
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<title>Easy Pineapple Upside Down Cake</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:13:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This recipe is pretty easy, as it uses a boxed yellow cake mix and canned pineapple. Of course you can substitute your favorite yellow cake from scratch recipe if you wish and fresh pineapple.  I make this recipe in a 10" cast iron skillet and it works great.]]></description>
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<title>Parsley - Not Just A Garnish</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:29:43 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Parsley has been known since the ancient Greeks, and before. It  was recommended by the father of medicine Hippocrates as a cure for many ailments.  Ancient Greeks used it in a wreath for crowning the winners of sporting events and hung it on tombs.]]></description>
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<title>Don't Throw Away That Turkey Carcass! Make Turkey Stock!</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:56:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You know the scene after a typical Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner. Someone cleans all the meat off the turkey bones and saves it for sandwiches. Then all the bones and skin gets tossed out.]]></description>
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<title>Blonde Brownies</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:02:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What's better than a gooey, rich Chocolate Brownie? A Blonde Brownie! Maybe not better, but darned good in their own right.]]></description>
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<title>Kale And Chicken Stir Fry</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:39:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Kale is in the same family of vegetables as cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, and a whole lot more too numerous to mention. They are all classified as cruciferous vegetables. There are numerous benefits derived from eating these kinds of vegetables.]]></description>
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<title>Apple Stuffed Pork Tenderloin</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:04:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It is hard to find better culinary companions than pork and apples.  One of the finest cuts of any kind of meat is pork tenderloin. When cooked well, it is tender, succulent, and lower in fat than you might think.]]></description>
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<title>Lemon Fluff</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:45:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Childhood memories involve a lot of things, not least of all the scents and flavors of foods we were raised on.  I've been on a quest to recreate some of those scents and flavors I remember so well.  I grew up in the 1950's, and there's a lot of folks out there that have some of the same food memories I have, as a quick search of the internet has shown.]]></description>
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<title>Cowboy Beans</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:36:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An easy dish that really sticks to your ribs. Teenagers especially like this dish. Take advantage of that and teach them how to cook it for themselves.]]></description>
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<title>Italian Gnocchi</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:33:31 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Gnocchi are small dumplings. They are a very old form of food, and there are examples of recipes for Gnocchi that go back to the 13th century. Gnocchi can be made with many different ingredients like squash, bread, semolina flour, even eggplant. But modern Italian Gnocchi is made with potatoes.]]></description>
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<title>Crab Rangoon</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:58:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Crab Rangoon is a staple of Chinese and most other kinds of oriental restaurants, but they are not a traditional Chinese dish. There are very few authentic Chinese dishes that call for any kind of cheese and none that use cream cheese.]]></description>
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<title>The Tomato - From the New World</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:41:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some history and facts about tomatoes. Tomatoes are in the same botanical family as tobacco, peppers, potatoes, eggplant and the poisonous plant deadly nightshade. Tomatoes are thought to have originated in South America and Mexico. These wild tomatoes were the size of the modern day cherry tomatoes.]]></description>
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<title>Garlic - The Left Footprint of Satan</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:15:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some facts and folklore about garlic: Garlic is a member of the same family as the onion, leek and shallot. The name 'garlic' comes fro man Old English word that means 'spear leek'. Garlic is thought to have originated in southeast Asia.]]></description>
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<title>The Marvelous Onion - Facts and Folklore</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:58:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Onions have been valued for thousands of years for culinary, medicinal and other uses. Some facts and folklore about the onion.]]></description>
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<title>Basic Tomato Sauce For Pasta</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:02:32 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cook onions, carrot and celery in olive oil over low heat for a minute or two. Add garlic and cook until onions are translucent, about 10 minutes or so. Be careful not to burn the garlic! Garlic is usually added after the onions and celery cook for a few minutes because garlic will burn faster. Burnt garlic turns bitter!]]></description>
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<title>Home Made Pasta</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:01:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you've got some time and are willing to put forth some effort, you can make your own home made pasta. The basic ingredients are: 	 	]]></description>
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<title>Thyme - The Antiseptic Herb</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:00:50 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Thyme is an herb that has been known about and used since ancient times. Egyptians used it as an ingredient for embalming, ancient Greeks would burn the herb for its aromatic properties. The spread of thyme through Europe is credited to the ancient Romans, as they used it as a room purifier and a flavoring for cheese and food.]]></description>
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<title>Marjoram - More Subtle Than Oregano</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:37:07 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Marjoram is an herb that is sometimes confused with oregano. The two herbs are both members of the mint family, but marjoram has a more subtle, sweet flavor.]]></description>
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<title>Basil - The King of Herbs</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:47:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Basil is a very fragrant herb that is related to mint. It is thought to have originated in India, Asia and Africa and has been cultivated for over 5,000 years. It has a slight flavor of anise and is used in Italian, Greek, and Asian cuisine. Its name comes from the Greek word for king.]]></description>
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<title>Oregano - Herb of the Mediterranean</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 14:47:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Oregano is an herb most thought of as an ingredient in many types of Italian food. Oregano has a wonderfully aromatic and warm smell when used in Italian dishes like pizza and it is a great compliment to any tomato-based pasta sauce.]]></description>
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<title>Types of Cheese For Pizza</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 16:11:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Without a doubt the most popular cheese to use for pizza is mozzarella. This cheese originated in the Naples region of Italy and was first made from water buffalo milk. Original mozzarella was of very high moisture content, and had a short shelf life.  The texture of the original mozzarella did not lend to grating at all, and the cheese was usually cut into slices to be used.]]></description>
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<title>Home Made Pizza Sauce</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:02:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There's a huge variety of pre-made pizza sauces available. But if you make your own, you can make it as you like it. The basic ingredient in pizza sauce is plain old tomato sauce. Making your own pizza sauce is really quite easy. I use tomato paste, as it is thick enough that you can add many different things to it.]]></description>
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<title>The Chinese Dragon Tortoise</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 07:45:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Dragons and tortoises are two of the most powerful symbols in Chinese mythology. The Dragon itself stands for many things. Wealth, fertility, positive energy and immortality are but a few of the symbolic meanings.]]></description>
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<title>The Perfect Home Made Pizza</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 07:45:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[By following just a few simple and basic rules of thumb, anyone can make delicious pizza at home. Use a good pizza dough - some folks use the refrigerated dough that comes in a roll, some use Bisquick or some other powdered mix. But why not make your own?]]></description>
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<title>Pizza Stones and How to Use Them</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:56:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The home cook that wants to create a great homemade pizza should take a cue from professional pizza chefs. Half of the battle is in the crust. Whether thick or thin, the crust can make or break a pizza. No matter what the toppings are, if the crust is not done all the way through, or done too much to the point of being burnt, the pizza is ruined.]]></description>
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<title>Basic Pizza Dough</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 11:55:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This dough uses olive oil and two packets of rapid rise yeast to create a basic pizza dough. This dough can be made in any kind of electric mixer that is heavy duty enough for dough making. Use a dough hook in the mixer.]]></description>
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<title>Yin and Yang - Sweet and Sour</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:48:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chinese philosophy pays a great deal of attention to opposites. Light and dark, sad and happy, black and white. These concepts are called Yin and Yang. But these concepts are more than opposing. They are complimentary. There can be no light without dark, no dark without light. No heaven without earth, and no earth without heaven. This philosophy permeates all of Chinese culture, including their cuisine.]]></description>
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<title>Mongolian Beef</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:01:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a recipe that reflects the cooking techniques of northern China. The meaty flavor of this dish has made it popular, even with folks who don't usually like Chinese food.]]></description>
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<title>Elephant Garlic Chicken</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:53:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Elephant garlic is not actually garlic, but a type of leek. It gets its name because the individual cloves of elephant garlic are so large that they can be as big as an entire head of regular garlic. It is available in many large supermarkets. Elephant garlic has a much milder and sweeter taste than regular garlic.]]></description>
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<title>The Lion Dance - Ancient Art Form of China</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 11:17:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Lion Dance of China originated over one thousand years ago. It depicts the Asiatic lions of nearby India, some of which may have been presented to early Chinese Emperors as gifts.  Lions in Chinese culture are guardian creatures, with statues of lions guarding royal palaces, homes of government officials and royal tombs.]]></description>
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<title>Mahogany Chicken Wings</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:44:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This recipe results in chicken wings that are a brown color when cooked (hence the name). The sauce the wings are marinated in, along with the natural gelatin in the wings makes for delicious flavor and texture.]]></description>
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<title>The Four Regions of Chinese Cuisine</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 10:14:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The world of Chinese food consists of more variety than most Americans realize. There are many different types of food in China that can be categorized roughly by four regions: Southern, Northern, Eastern and Western.]]></description>
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