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		<title>The Adventures of Tacos Berlin: Year 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the end of this month, Tacos Berlin will have been on the road for one year. Talk about a feliz cumpleaños! When we first started this adventure, it was hard for us to imagine where we would be in 12 months. But here we are: making tacos and taking names (literally). Serving the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tacos Berlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 22, 2010 Update: The official Tacos Berlin website is up and running. Just in time for a mention in a New York Times article about Mexican food in Berlin! 1 Jan 2010 &#8211; It took eight months to do it, but we finally sold tacos in Berlin this summer. As mentioned in one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling nippy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Must bite!&#8221; During the first three to four weeks we had Rudie &#8212; the very tiny, very funny Spaniel/Chihuahua/Something-or-Other puppy we adopted in early June &#8212; we imagined, if she had a vocabulary, these were about the only two words running through her head. No matter the situation, she always managed to punctuate the moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So this is a season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe that I arrived in Berlin more than six months ago. When Barrett picked me up from the airport in November, the winter&#8217;s first snow was fresh on the ground, the sky was a milky cold gray and the sun was tucked away by 4 p.m. When we moved into our apartment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s this &#8216;Silvester&#8217; dude?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Year&#8217;s Eve in Berlin has come and gone, but the singed eyebrows remain. Earlier this week I was making room on my camera when I came across photos from the end-of-the-year festivities, known in Germany as Silvester. Viewed out of context, one might think I&#8217;d stumbled across photos from the Seattle&#8217;s WTO protest or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture Parade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a mishmash of photos I&#8217;ve taken since I got here:]]></description>
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		<title>Currywurst &#8212; It&#8217;s what&#8217;s for Döner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walk down Any Strasse Berlin, and you&#8217;re sure to come across the city&#8217;s king and queen of street food: currywurst and döner kebab. Both are said to have been created in Berlin (the &#8220;inventor&#8221; of döner kebab, Mahmut Aygün, passed away very recently). Who wears the pants in this monarchy of fast food is certainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It tastes Mexican-ish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years now, Barrett and I have dreamed of opening a taco cart in Berlin &#8212; it&#8217;s that cilantro-sprinkled vision that finally brought us here. So, it should come as no surprise that upon my arrival in Berlin, we decided to save the schnitzel for later and check out the competition. My estimation is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slack, I am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two months have passed since I arrived in Berlin, and I had every intention of blogging about my experiences here. As you can tell by the date of my last post, things didn&#8217;t go quite according to plan. The biggest setback came about five days in when the hard drive on my computer died, taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s snowing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, yeah. I know I&#8217;ll hate the snow in a couple of days when it turns to icy, black slush-mush, but for now, I am loving it. I love it because it&#8217;s happening in a place where I live, not some place I am just visiting, and I get a sense of calm watching billions [...]]]></description>
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