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This is my favorite cocktail. Anywhere.
Until A16, the Italian restaurant, opened this summer in Napa, if someone ever mentioned “five boroughs,” I visualized the five boroughs of New York…
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A post-Norway post
If you have followed my armchair travels in Japan and Norway this year, you might be getting hungry for your own next journey.
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For one day, Napaman becomes Norseman! I finally found a Norse town I could live in!
Morning dawns over Stavanger (above), the last port of call on our 16-day cruise around the coast of Norway.
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Here’s one fine place where you can af-fjord to live!
Welcome to the sleepy fjord town of Eidfjord, population 950, which makes it TWICE the size of our sleepy village of Rutherford, in Napa Valley.
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Trondheim… sounds like Sondheim… but they haven’t made a musical of this sweet Norwegian town. Not yet, anyway.
Trondheim is the third largest city in Norway (after Oslo and Bergen — I just knew you were going to ask).
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The real name of this town is #…..
Okay, so the locals spell it HARSTAD, but they pronounce it so swiftly in Norwegian that it sounds like they’re saying “Hashtag.”
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In the Arctic Circle, THIS is the top Beatle song….
At this time of year, when you are cruising the Arctic Circle, there’s only one Beatles’ song you can possibly hum 24/7:
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A former foreign correspondent in Africa, I have been a food & wine writer 45 years, twice named "Best Food Writer in North America," by a panel of peers. napaman.com speaks to the 3 million visitors who come to Napa Valley annually.

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