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• Books for Christmas, New Year's, anytime

  December 2, 2009

  • Books for Christmas, New Year’s, anytime A few of our favorite books this year, in random order:  Real Food and Wine, in Rome: Food Wine Rome, by yours truly (shamelessly yours), the Terroir Guide to Rome, with Alison’s photography, and hundreds of food artisans, restaurants, a food glossary and more: www.davidddownie.com where you can buy from independent booksellers or the ...
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• The Jim Morrison Memorial BBQ

  July 6, 2009

  • The Jim Morrison Memorial BBQ   Whether or not you enjoy the music of The Doors, and whether or not you’re a fan of Jim Morrison, it’s always worth detouring to Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris to see the crowds that gather at his grave. Each July 3rd those crowds are huge. People arrive to celebrate, mourn or scorn the rock star. He died in a Paris bathtub on a hot July 3rd, 1971 and ...
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