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Read Your Way to a Food and Wine Destination

Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen | Posted 04.29.2013 | Travel
Read More: Burgundy Wine, M.F.K. Fisher, Michigan Wine, John Kent Cooke, California Wine Country, Musings on Wine and Other Libations, Brigit Binns, Virginia Wine Country, Armchair Travel, Food Writing, Paso Robles, Wine Writing, Rachel Martin, Nicholas Lander, The Art of the Restaurateur, Jancis Robinson, The New Wine Country Cookbook, Wine Travel, Renato-Dulbecco-Dead, Burgundy, Joe Bastianich, Santa Barbara, Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Travel Writing, American Wine, Central Coast, Wine Tourism Day, Slidepollajax, Cookbook Reviews, Travel News
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen

Despite the easy access of information on the web, we are still fans of paper and longer form narrative, and turn to books for inspiration in travel.

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Want a Great Meal? Try One of These 3 Combinations for 'Perfection'

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 09.17.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Food, Eating, M.F.K. Fisher, Happiness, Dining Out, Dining, Emotional Wellness, Entertaining, Entertaining Tips, Tips for Entertaining, Healthy Living News
Gretchen Rubin

I love the fact that M.F.K. Fisher, author of The Art of Eating, sings the praises of eating alone on a couch. Am I the only one who loves that kind of meal? I like eating alone on a hill side, too, but that's a bit harder to pull off.

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Thank Goodness the Holidays Are Over!!!

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.18.2012 | Home
Read More: MFK Fisher, Smartphones, Norman Rockwell, Holidays. Family, Home News
Tom Alderman

Just what is a happy family? Do you know what one actually looks like? Seems to be the whole concept is up for interpretation.

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An Everlasting Meal: Cooking With Economy and Grace

Monica Strawbridge | Posted 03.06.2012 | Miami
Read More: M.F.K. Fisher, Recession Cooking, Tamar Adler, Cooking, An Everlasting Meal, How to Cook a Wolf, Feeding a Family, Cooking With Economy, Beans, Inexpensive Meals, Miami News
Monica Strawbridge

An Everlasting Meal is less a cookbook with page after page of recipes, and more a book full of the author's thoughts about her favorite ways to feed, and even spiritually nourish, people with great food.

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Cooking by the Book

Michael Laiskonis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: MFK Fisher, Harold McGee, Ferran Adria, Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert, Michael Ruhlman, Cookbooks, Books, Food, Thomas Keller, Cooking Books, 2010 Cookbooks, Best Cookbooks, Slidepollajax, Home News
Michael Laiskonis

I love books. Skipping the typical route of formal culinary school, I sought a lot of my early education from them. These days, I don't afford mysel...

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The Gastronomy of Marriage Author on the Tempestuous Relationship between Love and Food

Louise McCready Hart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Calvin Trillin, Julia Reed, Julia Child, Aj-Liebling, Food, Deborah Madison, Mfk-Fisher, Michelle Maisto, Love, F, Gourmet Magazine, Media News
Louise McCready Hart

When Rich and I moved in together, I wanted everything to go smoothly, so it freaked me out when food -- what had been our biggest bond -- became our biggest problem.

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On Julie & Julia, the Fake Movieland France and My Non-Buttery Menu

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: M.F.K. Fisher, Food Recipes, Lamb, Julie and Julia, France, Paris, French Women, Moroccan, June Platt, Javier Domingo, Marshall Plan, Menu, Cooking, Le Cordon Bleu, Julia Child, Julie Powell, Entertainment News
Barbara Probst Solomon

This past weekend, I was dumbfounded at the movie vision of a 1948 Paris resplendent with sumptuous food portrayed in Julie & Julia. That year much of Europe was suffering from starvation.

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