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		<title>Vegetation Profile: Winter Melon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winter melon (Chinese: 冬瓜; pinyin: dōngguā, Japanese 冬瓜（とうがん）tougan, also called white gourd or ash gourd, is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable. The fruit is fuzzy when young. By maturity, the fruit loses its hairs and develops a waxy coating, giving rise to the name wax gourd, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising the Mekong Delta</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Astronomer and I played hooky two Fridays ago to visit the Mekong Delta. We traveled with a tour group (Sinh Cafe) because the southern part of Vietnam isn&#8217;t as accessible as the larger cities. For a measly eighteen bucks, we enjoyed a two-day, one-night excursion and a souvenir t-shirt. We began our tour at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetation Profile: Bitter Melon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Momordica charantia is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown for edible fruit, which is among the most bitter of all vegetables. English names for the plant and its fruit include bitter melon or bitter gourd (translated from Chinese: 苦瓜; pinyin: kǔguā), in Jamaica it is generally known as cerasse. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetation Profile: Elephant Ear</title>
		<link>http://gastronomyblog.com/2007/11/02/vegetation-profile-elephant-ear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bac ha is the Vietnamese name for an Asian vegetable which is known by a variety of names in English including taro stem and elephant ear. The scientific name for the plant is Alocasia odora. The plant is native to Southeast Asia, and is available from Asian markets and specialty stores. It is also possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetation Profile: Sugar Apple</title>
		<link>http://gastronomyblog.com/2007/10/29/vegetation-profile-sugar-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some regions of the world, the sugar-apple is also known as custard-apple, a different plant in the same genus. Annona squamosa (Sugar-apple, Sweetsop or Custard Apple) is a species of Annona native to the tropical Americas. Its exact native range is unknown due to extensive cultivation, but thought to be in the Caribbean. The [...]]]></description>
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