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Travel: The Hunt For Amazing Wild Mushrooms In France’s Loire Valley
———– ———– Editor’s note: Learning how to forage wild mushrooms has long been on my to-do list, and somehow never seems to get done. It’s the sort of hunting which appeals to me, and what can be more...
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Travel: 16th Century China Comes Alive In Portland’s Magical Lan Su Garden
———– ———– Travel is one of the things in life which has brought me a lot of joy. To visit historical and cultural sites can make vivid times and places we’ve only read about–Kyoto’s temples or the old...
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Travel: Celebrating Winter Solstice Downtown (Where All The Lights Are Bright)
———– ———– I’m not entirely sure why, but this is my favorite time of year. Perhaps it’s a holdover from childhood, when year’s end meant two weeks off from school, and of relative freedom. But I do...
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Travel: Notes From A Foodie Weekend in Portland
———– ———– It’s not exactly a secret that Portland, Oregon has become one of America’s premiere food cities, known as it is for its fresh, local, seasonal, and largely organic cuisine. So, when I made a...
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Travel: Are Truffles Really Worth All The Fuss Made About Them?
———– ———– ROBERT BONNELL, OUR CORRESPONDENT IN FRANCE, SAYS YES Editor’s Note: Truffles, those little knobs of fungus, have long been a prized ingredient in French and Italian cooking, and in recent...
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A Week of Eating Out, And In, In Manhattan and Brooklyn
Food and New York just go together. New Yorkers clearly love to eat. On some Manhattan blocks, every single storefront is a restaurant. As cold weather always stimulates my appetite, you can be sure I...
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Life Between Snow Storms: A Wintry (But Fabulous) Week in New York City
———– ———– What kind of crazy Californian goes to New York in February? Especially this year, during one of the coldest and snowiest winters in recent memory? Well, I guess that would be me. Yes, I’ve...
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Journey Back in Time: Take The A Train to The Cloisters
———-———— As a newcomer living in New York some 45 years ago, the city seemed like like an alluring, unknown wonderland, and I felt like an explorer ever ready for a new adventure. And so, one weekend...
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Q: What Would You Do If You Had Only One Afternoon In Paris?
___________ __________ Paris, ancient as it is, has endured a great plenty of violence, war and revolution. But given the relative peace of recent decades, bloody scenes from the Charlie Hebdo shooting...
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Faces & Places: More of My Father’s Color Photos of Southern California in...
———— ———— Three years ago I posted a dozen or so images digitized from 35 mm colored slides my father made in Southern California in the 1940’s. Those photos were viewed by far more people than...
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