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  <title>The Perfect Prawns</title>
  <published_at>Tue Jun 03 14:07:00 -0700 2008</published_at>
  <link>http://www.chow.com/stories/11144</link>
  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <short_description>Salt-roasted with rosemary</short_description>
  <long_description>The LA Times's Russ Parsons lauds the salt-roasted spot prawns at Providence restaurant.</long_description>
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  <author>Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</author>
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	<h1>The Perfect Prawns</h1>


	<h3>By Meredith Arthur, Eric Slatkin, and Blake Smith</h3>


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When asked for his perfect dish, <em>LA Times</em> food writer Russ Parsons knew his answer immediately: the salt-roasted spot prawns at <a href="http://www.chow.com/places/2280">Providence</a> restaurant. Here he describes what makes this dish so sublime. (And in the June 4, 2008, edition of the <em>Times</em> he took <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-prawn04-2008jun04,0,3978159.story">a closer look at these crustaceans</a>.)
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<p class="author_bio_new"><em>The unparalleled. The best in show. We call it <a class="red" href="http://www.chow.com/stories/90/category">The Perfect</a>: our video series on how something so very good gets to be that way.</em></p>]]>
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