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Thank You for Smoking (Notes from eastern North Carolina)
Thursday, September 10 @ 12:06:54 PDT by Scott |  
A recent business trip to North Carolina left just enough time for a little barbecue. On to the food...
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Thank You for Smoking (Notes from western North Carolina)
Tuesday, September 08 @ 09:02:44 PDT by Scott | 
A recent business trip to North Carolina left just enough time for a little barbecue. On to the food...
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One Week, Dos Brisas, Three Meals (Part 3)
Tuesday, July 29 @ 19:03:15 PDT by Scott | 
For the third meal at the Inn at Dos Brisas, I returned to the "grand collection" tasting menu. Despite the proximity in time to the first meal, the kitchen was able to avoid duplicating any course between the two. On to the food...
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One Week, Dos Brisas, Three Meals (Part 2)
Thursday, July 24 @ 19:51:09 PDT by Scott | 
When the hostess noticed I had entered the ranch from the service entrance in my prior visit, she gave me the address to plug into the GPS so I could come in through the front the next night. (At the end of the evening, she reminded me of the address and pointed out that it was printed on the take-home copy of the menu.) I pulled through the front gate, drove through fields and over a small creek, around a pond, and then stopped to inspect the garden. On to the food...
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One Week, Dos Brisas, Three Meals (Part 1)
Monday, July 21 @ 19:49:08 PDT by Scott | 
In late January, the Mobil Travel Guide announced seventeen five-star restaurants for 2008. The list included many familiar, expected names, such as the French Laundry, per se, Alinea, Charlie Trotter's, Jean Georges, Le Bernardin, Masa, et al. Patrick O'Connell's Inn at Little Washington made the cut for the eighteenth consecutive time. But, in what came as a surprise to most local food-lovers, another inn in another Washington also made the list--the Inn at Dos Brisas, in Washington, Texas. On to the food...
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