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<title>Slow Food Vancouver Island &amp; Gulf Islands</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca</link>
<description><![CDATA[Slow Food Vancouver Island & Gulf Islands General RSS Feed.]]></description>
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<title>Cow Bay Crawl By Angie Jabine</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=Mu55LwNojnFm6A6kD2NjxKqCFwgoj</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:08:07 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When I learned last September that Cowichan Bay had just been named North Americas first Cittaslow community, I was intrigued. Cittaslow (pronounced CHEE-tah-slow) is an offshoot of Italys international Slow Food organization, and most of the towns it has honored for their resistance to a fast-paced, industrialized lifestyle are in Europe and Asia. How, I wondered, did Cittaslow even find out about Cow Bay, an agricultural and fishing village on the inland coast of Vancouver Island?]]></description>
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<title>Food Politics in L.A.: Hungry for Change</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=o1P77GgwazwEGBw8wcvKMdnmzt4</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:42:08 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The business of government often has been conducted over a meal, but these days it's food itself that's on the public agenda: how to get more and better food to poor people, how to improve what children eat at school, how to encourage access to farmers' products and community gardens, how to combat obesity, and more.]]></description>
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<title>Bison Population needs room to grow</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=shDyVXbSM3vsdU4f2OhK</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:38:59 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Restoring the wild bison population in North America depends on the land made available for roaming and a change in public attitude towards the animal, says a new study co-edited by a Calgary researcher.
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<title>Maple Syrup Evaporator</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=9bvFRDNcZpmwfZLd4JR6g9TKgcA</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:07:06 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The evaporator that had been boiling away all day outside the classroom window shows its stuff.]]></description>
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<title>Maple Syrup Tasting Spoons</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:06:13 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We tasted seven different syrups, ranging from light to dark. The last one was an organic maple syrup from Eastern Canada, which proved popular; after all, it's the taste we’ve all come to identify with maple syrup.]]></description>
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<title>Maple Syrup Producers</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=BFkxTnJVudw7cdH6BKsmyhOg</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:05:21 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some of the syrup producers came along to talk us through the process of tapping the big leaf maple, and boiling the sap down.]]></description>
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<title>Maple Syrup Tasting Workshop</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=FBFsIjt8MsLR3ZRViI0PWepR</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:04:42 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Appropriate venue; here we are seated the old school house at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan. A haven of calm while the crowds milled elsewhere on the property; talks were punctuated by the passing of the train that circled the property, laden with merrymakers. I heard they were expecting 1500 people and I would be surprised if they didn't get that many.]]></description>
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<title>Mara Jernigan speaks about Maple Syrup</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=u7Epe8D8HByaFz2QrBJu6obL</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:02:43 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mara Jernigan explains the tasting criteria for maple syrup, including the Brix score (66.1 = perfection) that measures sweetness.]]></description>
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<title>Maple Syrup Tasting Workshop</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=tqoYpNsnLfKT69DxtXBaMJsRxwAdS</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:39:10 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TAP INTO SLOW FOOD VANCOUVER ISLAND'S MAPLE SYRUP TASTING WORKSHOPS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6 AT DUNCAN BIGLEAF FESTIVAL]]></description>
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<title>Chard and Cauliflower Soup</title>
<link>http://www.slowisland.ca/item_view.php?item_id=5CiEoaL98yeD0UIv4380j9N59q8rT</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:52:45 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(6-8 servings)]]></description>
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