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LIFE Magazine published my photo 58 years ago today!
I had taken the shot the previous summer while working for Operation Crossroads Africa, a Peace Corps-like, summer program for college students; I went…
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There's no word that rhymes with Orange... and no story about Oranges as crazy as this!
I read this headline in Bloomberg this morning:
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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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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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