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“I’m here at Du Pain et des Ides, a mouthwatering bakery in the 10th whose Belle poque decor pales in comparison with his splendid produce] thanks to Jamie Cahill, whose clever little book The Ptisseries of Paris has sent me in search of some of the treasures she picks out.” –Erica Wagner, The Times (London)

“This charming book profiles almost 100 of the best patisseries, chocolate shops, tea salons, ice cream parlors and other sweet spots in Paris. Author Jamie Cahill also includes the best picnic spots and offers several lovely sidebars: a profile of a chocolate buyer for a fashionable gourmet store, a behind-the-scenes look at the daily goings-on in a patisserie kitchen and the history of three crucial items in the French kitchen…Cahill also mentions other useful tips, including brief descriptions of the various types of creams and cream fillings that form the foundation of French pastries.” –The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“The Patisseries of Paris: Chocolatiers, Tea Salons is a book for your sweet tooth. For those who have a passion for macaroons, this book will inform you where to find every patisserie in every arrondissement.” –BonjourParis

“If there was one book published this year that delivered total bliss and joy, it is Patisseries of Paris by Jamie Cahill. With illustrations. Millefeuilles. Chaussons. Chocolatines. Sultanes. Cornes de gazelles from La Mosquee. Babas au rhum. Tartes aux fruits rouges. More petits fours than there are in heaven.” –Best Christmas Books, The Times (London)

“Jamie Cahill has compiled the city’s best pastry shops, bakeries, ice cream shops, chocolatiers, and salons de th.” –Gridskipper

“If youre looking for a absolute guide to Paris Ptisseries, I suggest you get yourself a copy of The ptisseries of Paris Jamie Cahills latest book, so beautiful you could read it anytime of the year, but which could become quite handy if youre planning to visit Paris.” –FoodBeam

“This charming book profiles almost 100 of the best patisseries, chocolate shops, tea salons, ice cream parlors and other sweet spots in Paris. Author Jamie Cahill also includes the best picnic spots and offers several lovely sidebars.” –The Chicago Tribune

Jamie Cahill worked in journalism, public relations, and marketing before moving to Paris. A lifelong dessert lover, she recently completed the city of Pariss professional ptisserie course. She now lives in London.

Alison Harris has worked throughout the world shooting photos for travel books, cookbooks, advertising campaigns, book covers, and magazine stories. Her latest book is Markets of Paris, published by The Little Bookroom.

Parisians know that a perfect pain au chocolat or wild strawberry tart is among life’s greatest pleasures. But which patisserie has the most intensely flavored macarons, the most sophisticated chocolates, or a croissant that is truly beyond compare? In the pages of The Patisseries of Paris, you’ll find the most enticing sweets in Pairs. You’ll discover what time of day Parisians in the know get items as they come out of the oven, the museums with the most stylish cafes, and other charming spots for light meals. This is the essential guide for anyone who wants to experience French culture, bite by delicious bite.

“I’m here at Du Pain et des Ides, a mouthwatering bakery in the 10th whose Belle poque decor pales in comparison with his splendid produce] thanks to Jamie Cahill, whose clever little book The Ptisseries of Paris has sent me in search of some of the treasures she picks out.” –Erica Wagner, The Times

“This charming book profiles almost 100 of the best patisseries, chocolate shops, tea salons, ice cream parlors and other sweet spots in Paris. Author Jamie Cahill also includes the best picnic spots and offers several lovely sidebars: a profile of a chocolate buyer for a fashionable gourmet store, a behind-the-scenes look at the daily goings-on in a patisserie kitchen and the history of three crucial items in the French kitchen…Cahill also mentions other useful tips, including brief descriptions of the various types of creams and cream fillings that form the foundation of French pastries.” –The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

“The Patisseries of Paris: Chocolatiers, Tea Salons is a book for your sweet tooth. For those who have a passion for macaroons, this book will inform you where to find every patisserie in every arrondissement.” –BonjourParis

“If there was one book published this year that delivered total bliss and joy, it is Patisseries of Paris by Jamie Cahill. With illustrations. Millefeuilles. Chaussons. Chocolatines. Sultanes. Cornes de gazelles from La Mosquee. Babas au rhum. Tartes aux fruits rouges. More petits fours than there are in heaven.” –Best Christmas Books, The Times

“Jamie Cahill has compiled the city’s best pastry shops, bakeries, ice cream shops, chocolatiers, and salons de th.” –Gridskipper

“If youre looking for a absolute guide to Paris Ptisseries, I suggest you get yourself a copy of The ptisseries of Paris Jamie Cahills latest book, so beautiful you could read it anytime of the year, but which could become quite handy if youre planning to visit Paris.” –FoodBeam

“This charming book profiles almost 100 of the best patisseries, chocolate shops, tea salons, ice cream parlors and other sweet spots in Paris. Author Jamie Cahill also includes the best picnic spots and offers several lovely sidebars.” –The Chicago Tribune

The Patisseries of Paris: Chocolatiers, Tea Salons, Ice Cream Parlors, and more

Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City’s 102 Best Restaurants

A Paris vacation in book form, this volume travels from the glittering restaurants of the Boulevard St.-Germain to the grittier haunts of Belleville and Clichy, offering insights into classic bistros, new favorites and even a smattering of ethnic cheapies (the sorts of dining establishments that Parisians themselves have only just started getting used to). Lobrano, European correspondent for Gourmet magazine, is an observant and dedicated restaurant-hound, noting the peculiarities of a certain proprietor at one brasserie, recording the exact temperature at which oysters are served at another. No entry is longer than two or three pages, but rest assured they’re fully stocked with strong opinions and recommendations; happily, Lobrano is unafraid to challenge culinary convention, calling L’Ami Louis, long a brutally expensive stop on the “when in Paris” tour, “a pretty egregious example of conspicuous consumption… especially when you can find better roast chicken and foie gras anywhere.” Not since Patricia Wells’s classic Food Lover’s Guide to Paris has a guidebook given readers such a mouthwatering tour of the City of Lights.
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

This new and updated version ofHungry for Paris, the most authoritative and charming guide to eating well in the French capital, includes reviews of all of the really fabulous new restaurants you won’t want to miss during your next trip to Paris, as well as updated maps and indexes.

WHEN IN PARIS. . . .

If youre passionate about eating well during your next trip to Paris, you couldnt ask for a better travel companion than Alexander Lobranos charming, friendly, and authoritative Hungry for Paris, the first new comprehensive guide in many years to the citys restaurant scene. Lobrano, Gourmet magazines European correspondent, has written for almost every major food and travel magazine since he became an American in Paris in 1986. Here he shares his personal selection of the citys 102 best restaurants, each of which is portrayed in savvy, fun, lively descriptions that are not only indispensable for finding a superb meal but a pleasure to read.

Lobrano reveals the hottest young chefs, the coziest bistros, the best buysincluding those haute cuisine restaurants that are really worth the moneyand the secret places Parisians love most, together with information on the most delicious dishes, ambience, clientele, and history of each restaurant. A series of delightful essays cover various aspects of dining in Paris, including Table for One , The Four Seasons , and Eating the Unspeakable . All restaurants are keyed to helpful maps, and the book is seasoned with beautiful photographs by Life magazine photographer Bob Peterson that will only help whet your appetite for tasting Paris.

Praise for Hungry for Paris:
“Every time I go to Paris I call Alec and ask him where to eat. Nobody else has such an intimate knowledge of what is going on in the Paris food world right this minute, and there is nobody I trust more to tell me all the latest news. Happily, Alec has written it all down in this wonderful book and now I can stop bothering him.” Ruth Reichl

“Hungry for Paris is a brilliant book with an almost fatal flaw: the writing is so enchanting you may never leave home to go to any of Alecs favorite places. Few people know,love and appreciate Paris restaurants the way Alec does; no one writes about them better or with more charm.” –Dorie Greenspan, author of Baking From My Home to Yours

When I was nineteen, I went to France to study, but instead, I just ate. The experience changed me: I came back to the United States, and a few years later, started Chez Panisse. In Hungry for Paris, Alec Lobrano describes his own gastronomic awakening, probably better than I could! This book is a wonderful guide to eating in Paris.
Alice Waters

I dearly hope Monsieur Lobrano has an unlisted phone number, for his book will make readers more than merely hungry for the culinary riches of his adopted city; it will make them ravenous for a dining companion with his particular warmth, wry charm, and refreshingly pure joie de vivre. Lobrano is a sly raconteur, a respectful critic, and the very best kind of insider–one who genuinely longs to share all his best discoveries.
Julia Glass, author of The Whole World Over and Three Junes

Organized by neighborhood and interspersed with delightful sections on such matters as eating alone. . . . This is the sort of guide you read before you go to Paris Lobrano tells you what to expect and how to act.-Los Angeles Times Book Review

Lobrano . . . fleshes out his luscious prose with tempting photos. Hungry for Paris is like a cozy bistro on a chilly day: It makes you feel welcome.
-Washington Post Book World

Le Grand Vfour. Maxim’s. La Table de Jol Robuchon. None of these venerated restaurants are on Lobrano’s list of the 102 best in Paris. And that’s one of the reasons I love Hungry for Paris.-Gridskipper

A treasure trove of 102 mostly undiscovered addresses Small and innovative bistros get the lion’s share of Lobrano’s ink, interspersed with chapters that are autobiographical, informative and entertaining.-Womens Wear Daily

Lobrano is an ideal guide because he remembers who he was, how he became the expert he is now, and how you can acquire expertise. And he can do that hard thing — see what’s in front of him.- HeadButler.com

Hungry for Paris: The Ultimate Guide to the City’s 102 Best Restaurants

Eating as the rationale for traveling through Italy?where food and culture are so naturally bound together?is the theme of Italophile Plotkin’s latest book. His ardent admiration for the country and its cuisine is evident in his personalized tour through the nation’s 22 regions, including the islands of Sicily and Sardenia. Guiding us through a land bountiful and diverse in terrain, history, and tradition, he explores each area’s distinctive foods and wines. When not traveling, Plotkin lectures and writes about things Italian and has penned The Authentic Pasta Book and Opera 101. He uses his extensive knowledge to create a catalog of helpful restaurant reviews, recipes (indexed), a glossary of food terms, profiles of cities and their local histories (indexed), and anecdotes that blend into an informative, entertaining, comprehensive guide. This selection is a treat for any travel collection.?David Nudo, “Library Journal”
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

In this exhaustive guide, Plotkin provides travelers to Bella Italia with information on the best places to eat in 300 cities and villages. Practical advice, such as making reservations, goes hand-in-hand with colorful descriptions of the Italian ristorante, trattoria, pizzeria, friggitoria, and other types of eating establishments. Plotkin is particularly adept at depicting the cultural climate of each region, listing appealing towns a traveler must not pass by and those area culinary specialities to be savored. Whether one desires the address of a fine butcher shop, has a hankering for pastries and an espresso, or seeks a dining experience fit for a king, these listings more than fit the bill. When seeking out excellent culinary fare, doubtless, the true gourmet will be undaunted by this weighty tome. Alice Joyce –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Fred Plotkin takes us beyond the traditional tourist experience and lures us to special places, whether in big cities or out-of-the-way villages. Under his discerning eye, we learn about the food, wines, local bakeries, olive oil distilleries, cheeses, markets, restaurants, and best kept secrets of Italy’s culinary world. Lovingly drawn portraits of the people who make world-famous regional specialities, and local history make each village, town, and city come alive.

Italy for the Gourmet Traveler

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track

This travel guide and cookbook charts a fresh path. Elon has little interest in the well–documented, popular sites of Tuscany. Florence and Siena attract her not at all. Out-of-the-way villages nestled in valleys or atop hilly crags summon her, and the unusual culinary specialties of these places really make her prose flow. Elon’s taste buds lead her from one small-town restaurant to another. There she finds traditional dishes, whose recipes she records. Exploded Beans, garlic and herbs flavoring beans whose skins have burst open in the oven, offers an unusual side dish. Farro, an ancient grain undergoing a modern revival, appears in risotti and soups and in combination with other ingredients. Hot-pepper marmalade pairs with local sheep’s-milk cheeses. Rabbit and simple poultry dishes abound. Onions and polenta bake together to form a large tart for a first course. Many dishes will appeal to vegetarians looking for new tastes. Elon’s meticulous documentation of restaurant hours and locations makes this an especially practical guide for anyone driving through Tuscany. Mark Knoblauch
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Each of the ten itineraries in this cookbook/guidebook takes readers through parts of Tuscany that still remain largely undiscovered and into the kitchens of more than fifty superb but little-known restaurants specializing in regional cuisinethose that are for the most part overlooked by tourists and known only to the locals. Each regional section begins with illuminating and absorbing explanations of what makes Tuscan cooking so unique: location, location, location. Youll read about a bean so beloved by a village that its been elevated to cult statusbut unknown a few kilometers down the road; an aboriginal baby lamb that is almost unknown outside of the Zeri valley; the endless array of vegetable tarts found nowhere in Tuscany but Lunigiana and Garfagnana. With this guide in hand, youll not only know where to dine but what to order when you get there.

In addition to 100 recipes, also included are nearby points of interest, descriptions and contact information for restaurants, trattorie, gourmet shops, wineries, olive oil producers, local markets, and regional food festivals, and how to find the monasteries, workshops, and artisans studios that offer local items ranging from herbal beauty products to traditional ceramics and handwoven linens.

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track

Today show travel editor Greenberg (The Travel Detective) is determined to get travelers the best hotel rooms and perks for the least amount of money, whether theyre staying at a Holiday Inn or a Ritz-Carlton. His advice covers everything from how to tip, snag a nice room and make friends with the concierge to ordering room service and childproofing a room. His advice is a choppy mix of the valuable (e.g., a hotels Web site isnt always the best place to find the lowest rate), the commonsensical (e.g., beware the charges that may be incurred for merely opening a mini bar), the gutsy (e.g., ask if theres a handicapped-accessible room available when arriving at a hoteleven if youre not handicappedsince those rooms are larger), the far-fetched (e.g., if room service wont bring a specific dish, call the hotel dining room and ask them to deliver what you want via room service) and the paranoid (e.g., hotels that have in-room safes arent trustworthy). All the same, Greenbergs chatty humor and use of detailed anecdotes will be appreciated by both jet-setters and those just beginning their travels
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Indispensable information for away-from-home lodging, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective

In Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, America?s best-known and most trusted travel authority reveals the insider knowledge that can make every hotel stay as comfortable as (and sometimes even more cost-efficient than) home. With his incomparable access and nose for news, Peter Greenberg shares the secrets that people who know hotels?managers, maids, reservation clerks, bellhops, chefs, and maintenance guys?don?t want you to know about value, service, safety, security, and cleanliness. Tips include:

? How to tell if your room is really clean
? What never to order from room service
? The real way to prevent hotel crime
? How to beat excessive hotel phone charges
? The exact rooms where headline-making events took place

Drawn from the author?s experiences as both an investigative reporter and a constant traveler, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective is an essential guide to everything from luxury resorts to motels, from airport hotels and bed-and-breakfasts to outrageous (and often secret) alternatives to hotels.

Indispensable information for away-from-home lodging, from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Travel Detective

In Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective, Americas best-known and most trusted travel authority reveals the insider knowledge that can make every hotel stay as comfortable as (and sometimes even more cost-efficient than) home. With his incomparable access and nose for news, Peter Greenberg shares the secrets that people who know hotelsmanagers, maids, reservation clerks, bellhops, chefs, and maintenance guysdont want you to know about value, service, safety, security, and cleanliness. Tips include:

How to tell if your room is really clean
What never to order from room service
The real way to prevent hotel crime
How to beat excessive hotel phone charges
The exact rooms where headline-making events took place

Drawn from the authors experiences as both an investigative reporter and a constant traveler, Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective is an essential guide to everything from luxury resorts to motels, from airport hotels and bed-and-breakfasts to outrageous (and often secret) alternatives to hotels.

Hotel Secrets from the Travel Detective: Insider Tips on Getting the Best Value, Service, and Security in Accommodations from Bed-and-Breakfasts to Five-Star Resorts

Tough Times, Great Travels: The Travel Detective’s Guide to Hidden Deals, Unadvertised Bargains, and Great Experiences

PETER GREENBERG, travel editor for NBCs Today show, is the preeminent expert on travel and author of The Complete Travel Detective Bible and Don’t Go There!, plus several other titles. He is a contributing editor for Mens Health and Best Life and travel editor at large for AARP, and his national weekly radio show is syndicated on 130 stations and XM satellite radio. When hes not traveling, he lives in New York City, Los Angeles, and Bangkok.

Get the best travel deals during the worst of financial times
Tough Times, Great Travels: The Travel Detective’s Guide to Hidden Deals, Unadvertised Bargains, and Great Experiences

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.

About the photographer:
Swiss-born Vincent Knapp (1957-2007) lived and worked in Paris for over two decades as a free-lance photographer, notably for Conde Nast magazines such as Architectural Digest, Vogue, and The World of Interiors.

This book combines all of Angelika Taschen s recommendations for Paris hotels, shops, restaurants, cafes, and bars into one volume, ensuring visitors a wealth of ideas and a guarantee that their Parisian sojourn will never have a dull moment. From the ultra-hot Colette fashion concept store to Tom Ford s secret hideaway to Hemingway s favorite brasserie, all of the best insider tips are gathered together between these covers so that when you hop out from under yours, you ll have plenty of exciting things on your agenda.

Highlights include:

Decorative ceramics shop Astier de Villatte
The ultra-modern Comme des Garons perfume and candle boutique
Ladure, the best macaroons in the city
Ma Bourgogne restaurant on the beautiful Place des Vosges
Classic bistro Allard that has hardly changed in 70 years
Left bank restaurant La Palette, a favorite of Picasso and Braque
Brasserie Lipp, where Hemingway ate the eat herrings he wrote about in A Moveable Feast
The ultra-luxurious Ritz hotel on elegant Place Vendme
The cozy and cute Htel Bourg Tibourg in the Marais
Htel Verneuil in St. Germain-des-Prs opposite the former residence of Serge Gainsbourg
The quintessentially French Htel Duc de Saint-Simon

TASCHEN’s Paris

Taschen’s London

Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on architecture, photography, design, contemporary art, interiors, and travel.

About the photographer:

David Crookes is a London-based travel, interior, and portrait photographer. He contributes regularly to Cond Nast publications and his work is featured in many private collections.

Texts by:

Christine Samuelian is a writer, editor, and media consultant based in London. She began her career as a news reporter in Toronto before moving to the UK in 1997, where she worked at Vogue, and Wallpaper* magazine. She has contributed to Cond Nast Traveller, US Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and The Observer Magazine.

From Dickensian charm to modern cool, London has it all and this guide will help you find it. With a selection of stylish hotels, from classic to designer; antique markets, vintage stores and the hippest boutiques; and all the best of the capital’s restaurants, bars, tea rooms and pubs, Angelika Taschen’s compact compendium is a must for the discerning traveller.

Highlights include Number Sixteen, a chic South Kensington hotel in a beautiful Victorian townhouse with romatic gardens; The Wolseley, a grand caf and restaurant in a reconverted 1920s car showroom beautifully renovated by star designer David Collins; celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s restaurant and social project, Fifteen, where teenagers cook the meals; China Tang at The Dorchester, where stars go for delectable duck with plum sauce; historic London pub, The Grenadier, once frequented by the Duke of Wellington’s troops; Dover Street Market, the multi-floor concept store founded in 2004 by Comme des Garons; and Penhaligon’s, purveyors of classic English fragrances since 1872.

Taschen’s London

John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman served in the British Special Air Service (SAS) for twenty-six years. The SAS Survival Handbook is based on the training techniques of this world-famous elite fighting force.

The SAS Survival Handbook is the Special Air Service’s complete course in being prepared for any type of emergency. John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman presents real strategies for surviving in any type of situation, from accidents and escape procedures, including chemical and nuclear to successfully adapting to various climates (polar, tropical, desert), to identifying edible plants and creating fire. The book is extremely practical and is illustrated throughout with easy-to-understand line art and diagrams.

SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the WIld, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea

SAS Survival Guide 2E (Collins Gem): For any climate, for any situation

John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman served in the British Special Air Service (SAS) for twenty-six years. The SAS Survival Handbook is based on the training techniques of this world-famous elite fighting force.

Includes new case studies and survival scenarios

The experts’ survival techniques, based on John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman’s 26 years in the SAS

Practical, easy-to-follow advice with diagrams and color illustrations

*Visit the Apple iTunes store to be fully equipped with the SAS Survival Guide iPhone App.

SAS Survival Guide 2E (Collins Gem): For any climate, for any situation

“This practical, easy to understand guide covers all the basics of setting up and growing your business in India” (Retail & Leisure International, December 2007)

Navigate Indian politics, culture, and etiquette

The fun and easy way to expand your business to India

India is booming! This practical, easy-to-understand guide covers all the basics of setting up and growing your business in India, from choosing a location and selecting your Indian team to understanding the legal system, evaluating business partners, and settling disputes. You also get handy tips in financing, marketing, and manufacturing, as well as doing business from abroad.

Develop a strong business plan

Train and manage your Indian team

Cut through bureaucratic red tape

Build lucrative relationships

Overcome communication challenges

India is booming! This practical, easy-to-understand guide covers all the basics of setting up and growing your business in India, from choosing a location and selecting your Indian team to understanding the legal system, evaluating business partners, and settling disputes. You also get handy tips in financing, marketing, and manufacturing, as well as doing business from abroad.Develop a strong business planTrain and manage your Indian teamCut through bureaucratic red tapeBuild lucrative relationshipsOvercome communication challenges

“This practical, easy to understand guide covers all the basics of setting up and growing your business in India”

Doing Business in India For Dummies

CultureShock! India: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

Newly updated and redesigned in 2005! –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

CultureShock! India: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Cultureshock India: A Survival Guide to Customs & Etiquette)

This travel guide and cookbook charts a fresh path. Elon has little interest in the well–documented, popular sites of Tuscany. Florence and Siena attract her not at all. Out-of-the-way villages nestled in valleys or atop hilly crags summon her, and the unusual culinary specialties of these places really make her prose flow. Elon’s taste buds lead her from one small-town restaurant to another. There she finds traditional dishes, whose recipes she records. Exploded Beans, garlic and herbs flavoring beans whose skins have burst open in the oven, offers an unusual side dish. Farro, an ancient grain undergoing a modern revival, appears in risotti and soups and in combination with other ingredients. Hot-pepper marmalade pairs with local sheep’s-milk cheeses. Rabbit and simple poultry dishes abound. Onions and polenta bake together to form a large tart for a first course. Many dishes will appeal to vegetarians looking for new tastes. Elon’s meticulous documentation of restaurant hours and locations makes this an especially practical guide for anyone driving through Tuscany. Mark Knoblauch
Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Readers of Beth Elon’s new book, A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring & Eating Off The Beaten Track may be tempted to drop everything and book themselves on the next flight to Florence. They needn’t bring much more than this exhaustive guide and a healthy appetite…It’s hard to imagine a more knowledgeable or enthusiastic escort through this land. Town & Country

“Conveniently, we find A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring & Eating Off the Beaten Track by experienced cookbook author Beth Elon, a thirty-year resident of Italy. Herein we find Elon’s take on several dozen restaurants scattered around ten regions of Tuscany, complete with a list of house specialties including the actual recipes. She also points out gourmet shops and farmer’s markets, as well as historic sites, churches, museums, and other points of interest. Serious fans of Italian cooking will find this book thoroughly satisfying. It’s obvious Elon knows her way around the kitchen.” –Foreword Magazine

“One might think that everything that can be written about Tuscany has been written. But here is a gem of a book in the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher that takes readers down Italian back roads and into private kitchens. There are 10 chapters that represent 10 itineraries into 10 different Tuscan regions. Included are more than 100 recipes and contact information and descriptions from private kitchens and restaurants, trattorias, gourmet shops, bakeries, wineries, and olive oil producers. Also included are days and dates when food festivals are held that celebrate chocolate, truffles, chestnuts and mushrooms. Warning: this book may contribute to an expanding waistline.” –Book Passage Bookstore

This travel guide and cookbook charts a fresh path. Elon has little interest in the welldocumented, popular sites of Tuscany. Florence and Siena attract her not at all. Out-of-the-way villages nestled in valleys or atop hilly crags summon her, and the unusual culinary specialties of these places really make her prose flow…Elon’s meticulous documentation of restaurant hours and locations makes this an especially practical guide for anyone driving through Tuscany. Booklist

By stepping away from the traditional tourist destinations, travelers can get in touch with a places authentic flavor…Like a close friend trying to guide you to the best and most interesting places in town, Elon makes sure to point out historical, artistic, cultural, and gastronomical places of interest. Her culinary background leads her to place particular attention on regional and seasonal foods and restaurants and stores usually overlooked by tourists…An ideal companion for any traveler looking to taste his or her way through the back roads of Tuscany; recommended for travel and culinary collections. Library Journal

“A cross between Baedeker and the Silver Spoon, Beth Elon’s Culinary Traveller in Tuscany mixes history, restaurant reviews, and recipes.” Travel + Leisure, T+L’s Essential Summer-Reading List

“Beth Elon not only tastes Tuscany, she savors every flavor, turns down every enticing road, and joyously reveals her long, profound and continuing appreciation of this place of endless pleasures. Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

“What Beth Elon has given us is not only a detailed and practical cookbook but also a traveler’s guide and a love letter to a place and a way of living. This is great food writing in the spirit of Elizabeth David.” Joan Didion

Each of the ten itineraries in this cookbook/guidebook takes readers through parts of Tuscany that still remain largely undiscovered and into the kitchens of more than fifty superb but little-known restaurants specializing in regional cuisinethose that are for the most part overlooked by tourists and known only to the locals. Each regional section begins with illuminating and absorbing explanations of what makes Tuscan cooking so unique: location, location, location. Youll read about a bean so beloved by a village that its been elevated to cult statusbut unknown a few kilometers down the road; an aboriginal baby lamb that is almost unknown outside of the Zeri valley; the endless array of vegetable tarts found nowhere in Tuscany but Lunigiana and Garfagnana. With this guide in hand, youll not only know where to dine but what to order when you get there.

In addition to 100 recipes, also included are nearby points of interest, descriptions and contact information for restaurants, trattorie, gourmet shops, wineries, olive oil producers, local markets, and regional food festivals, and how to find the monasteries, workshops, and artisans studios that offer local items ranging from herbal beauty products to traditional ceramics and handwoven linens.

Readers of Beth Elon’s new book, A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring & Eating Off The Beaten Track may be tempted to drop everything and book themselves on the next flight to Florence. They needn’t bring much more than this exhaustive guide and a healthy appetite…It’s hard to imagine a more knowledgeable or enthusiastic escort through this land. Town & Country

“Conveniently, we find A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring & Eating Off the Beaten Track by experienced cookbook author Beth Elon, a thirty-year resident of Italy. Herein we find Elon’s take on several dozen restaurants scattered around ten regions of Tuscany, complete with a list of house specialties including the actual recipes. She also points out gourmet shops and farmer’s markets, as well as historic sites, churches, museums, and other points of interest. Serious fans of Italian cooking will find this book thoroughly satisfying. It’s obvious Elon knows her way around the kitchen.” –Foreword Magazine

“One might think that everything that can be written about Tuscany has been written. But here is a gem of a book in the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher that takes readers down Italian back roads and into private kitchens. There are 10 chapters that represent 10 itineraries into 10 different Tuscan regions. Included are more than 100 recipes and contact information and descriptions from private kitchens and restaurants, trattorias, gourmet shops, bakeries, wineries, and olive oil producers. Also included are days and dates when food festivals are held that celebrate chocolate, truffles, chestnuts and mushrooms. Warning: this book may contribute to an expanding waistline.” –Book Passage Bookstore

This travel guide and cookbook charts a fresh path. Elon has little interest in the welldocumented, popular sites of Tuscany. Florence and Siena attract her not at all. Out-of-the-way villages nestled in valleys or atop hilly crags summon her, and the unusual culinary specialties of these places really make her prose flow…Elon’s meticulous documentation of restaurant hours and locations makes this an especially practical guide for anyone driving through Tuscany. Booklist

By stepping away from the traditional tourist destinations, travelers can get in touch with a places authentic flavor…Like a close friend trying to guide you to the best and most interesting places in town, Elon makes sure to point out historical, artistic, cultural, and gastronomical places of interest. Her culinary background leads her to place particular attention on regional and seasonal foods and restaurants and stores usually overlooked by tourists…An ideal companion for any traveler looking to taste his or her way through the back roads of Tuscany; recommended for travel and culinary collections. Library Journal

“A cross between Baedeker and the Silver Spoon, Beth Elon’s Culinary Traveller in Tuscany mixes history, restaurant reviews, and recipes.” Travel + Leisure, T+L’s Essential Summer-Reading List

“Beth Elon not only tastes Tuscany, she savors every flavor, turns down every enticing road, and joyously reveals her long, profound and continuing appreciation of this place of endless pleasures. Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun

“What Beth Elon has given us is not only a detailed and practical cookbook but also a traveler’s guide and a love letter to a place and a way of living. This is great food writing in the spirit of Elizabeth David.” Joan Didion

A Culinary Traveller in Tuscany: Exploring and Eating Off the Beaten Track

Streetwise Tuscany Map – Laminated Road Map of Tuscany, Italy – Folding pocket size travel map

‘Don’t leave home without STREETWISE.’ –The New York Times

‘STREETWISE is an absolute travel essential.’ –Travel + Leisure Magazine

‘In a strange city, your sense of direction is only as good as the map in your hands. The best maps to carry are published by STREETWISE.’ –Chicago Daily Herald

Streetwise Tuscany Map – Laminated Road Map of Tuscany, Italy – Folding pocket size travel map

This map covers the following areas:
Main Tuscany Map 1:405,000
Florence Area Map 1:180,000

If you happen to be in driving around south of Siena, and it happens to be lunch time, you might want to head for a trattoria in San Angelo in Colle called Il Pozzo. Taking you to your seat in the small comfortable dining room, your host will recommend the pinci. Pinci? you ask, not knowing what it is exactly. Pinci, explains your host, is a hand made pasta and today it is being served al ragu, with a rich meat sauce. He seats you, hands you a well worn menu, folds his hands over his well endowed midsection and continues When I have a particularly long day my wife will look at me lovingly and ask if I want a little pinci for supper and I always say yes. Judging by the girth of your host, you realize that having a long day may not be such a bad thing in these parts and you put down your menu and tell him to bring on the pinci. You have made a wise choice.

Such is an excursion in Tuscany. You dont push it here, you go with the flow. If someone asks “Pinci?,” you say “Yes please.” This is one of the most magical places on earth, and has been since well before the Romans, so trust that there is a reason that things are the way they are here and go with it. You wont be disappointed and if you are, then you probably have a good story to tell anyway.

Now this advice applies to the authentic that youll find in Tuscany, and not the hyped up tourist venues. Theres plenty of authentic to be found and thats where the STREETWISE Tuscany Map comes in. Instead of the packaged itinerary that you find in most guide books, venture off on your own. Explore a little. Drive down that twisty road to a village that isnt listed in anything that youve read. Find that piazza where you can enjoy an espresso in a caf and do absolutely nothing except watch life take its course in true provincial fashion. Fill your picnic basket with goodies from several shops and head for the top of a Tuscan hillside where you can enjoy the view of sloping fields lined by cypress trees, softened by the warm hazy light that washes over everything.

Its all there; you just need to find it. And find it you will with our STREETWISE Tuscany Map; from the green hills and vineyards of Chianti to the beaches on the Tyrrhenian coast, to the peaks of the Apennines and on to the spas of Montecatini.

This map of the most famous region in Italy is complete with topographic terrain features and has all of the major A roads and local D roads to enable you to drive from town to town throughout Tuscany. Fully indexed and easy to read with scenic routes, regional / provincial boundaries, distance between points, car ferries, small and large towns, towns of special interest or charm, major urban areas, airfields, railways, bathing beaches, points of interest, state parks, campgrounds, mountain peak elevations, rivers and more.

A separate inset area map of Florence, capital of the Renaissance, will simplify your travels in and out of the city.

Our pocket size map of Tuscany is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE Tuscany map is one of several detailed and easy-to-read regional road maps designed and published by STREETWISE. Buy your STREETWISE Tuscany map today and you too can navigate Tuscany like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

Streetwise Tuscany Map – Laminated Road Map of Tuscany, Italy – Folding pocket size travel map

Elliot Cudby is a Pelican Publishing author.

For the traveler seeking excellent hospitality and a taste of how real New Zealanders live, this thoroughly expanded and newly updated bed and breakfast guide is the quintessential handbook. It offers personalized descriptions written by the hosts themselves, including location, prices, and directions to more than 1,000 private homes and hotels ranging from cozy to luxurious. Organized by region and city, each account highlights the host’s unique offerings.

New Zealand Bed & Breakfast Book, The

New Zealand Driving Holidays

Donnas most recent achievement was the completion of her first book New Zealand Driving Holidays and she has been a finalist in the Cathay Pacific Travel Media Awards for the Best Article Written About NZ in both 2004 and 2005. A well known NZ travel writer she enjoys writing descriptive features on NZ, with a focus on free and independent travel by road. Her articles include what to do and see en route, and cleverly entwine local history, legends, Maori culture and geography, with up-to-the-minute adventure activities, outdoor pursuits and local lifestyle, plus food and wine. Donna is a skilled photographer and shoots high-resolution digital images to accompany her written work.

New Zealand is the perfect destination to tour by car. Its roads are well formed and uncluttered, its tourist infrastructure world class, and New Zealanders take seriously their commitment to protecting, as well as making accessible, the beauty of their natural environment. This book contains 29 New Zealand holiday itineraries and touring maps for the independent traveler. It is a true insiders guide to New Zealand. The itineraries enable visitors to see the country at a pace that leaves time to savour the moment, with breakout options highlighting day trips of special interest. You could also select from different itineraries to create your own pathway through this fascinating land. Whether yo choose the beaten track or the road less traveled, you will come to agree, that these islands that some four million people call home, are a very special place indeed.

New Zealand Driving Holidays

Michael Powell (Somerset, England) has always been interested in doing things that he shouldn?t. His hobbies include looking gift horses in the mouth, staring directly at solar eclipses, and blowing past speed traps up and down Route 66. An accomplished humor author with more than sixty titles under his belt, he lives a surprisingly relaxed life at home in England with his wife and two young children.

Crash a nude beach.
Work your way into first class.
Shop on the black market.
Eat something that?s still alive.
Stow away aboard a ship.
And more . . .

Who needs a real passport when you can make a fake one? A ferry to Niagra Falls when you can barrel over it? A tour guide when you?ve got this travel guide? In this latest and most intrepid installment of the Forbidden Knowledge series, adventure seekers and their wannabe counterparts will be challenged to locate a lost Amazonian tribe, dare to dine on fugu in Japan, or hazard to trek through the Himalayan mountaintops in search of the legendary yeti.

Complete with a heads up on potential pitfalls, pertinent traveling tips, and useful underground tricks, this book is perfect for anyone looking to get away . . . with an international incident!

Forbidden Knowledge – Travel: 101 Things NOT Every Traveler Should Know How to Do

More Forbidden Knowledge: 101 New Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Do

Matt Forbeck (Rockford, WI) is the award-winning creator of countless books, novels, stories, tabletop games, computer games, comics, and toys, proving his inability to focus. He lives at home with his wife and five kids.

Adrenaline junkies took to the first edition like a Molotov cocktail to an empty car, and now we?re back with the eyebrow singeing, nerve-shaking, possible assault-charge causing, second round of forbidden knowledge. Where its predecessor pushed the limits and put the pedal to the metal, this followup explodes through boundaries and sets the reader in a tailspin of danger, temptation, and fun. Inside this edgy four-color self-destruction manual, you will learn how to: Become a mercenary; Amputate a limb; Summon a demon; Pass a drug test; Kite checks; and more. Certain to cause some laughs, scrapes, burns, and scarring?emotional and physical?this book packs twice the punch, kick, and fun.

More Forbidden Knowledge: 101 New Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Do

Chris Santella, author of STC’s Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die, is a freelance writer and marketing consultant based in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications.

There’s an incredible similarity between the mechanics of a fly cast and the swing of a golf club. Perhaps that’s why Chris Santella, author of Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die, can be found on the links when he’s not on the stream. With Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die, Santella gives voice to his other sporting passion, interviewing 50 people intimately connected to the sport about some of their favorite courses around the world.

For both passionate golfers and armchair travelers, this gorgeous full-color book presents the world’s greatest golf venues, the personal favorites of renowned players, course architects, and other experts in the sport. From Ballyliffin, Ireland’s northernmost course, whose rumpled fairways wander along the North Sea in the shadows of Glashedy Rock, to New Zealand’s Cape Kidnappers, perched atop dramatic cliffs some 500 feet above the ocean, the book’s beautiful photographs capture the architecture, noteworthy holes, location, and ambiance that make these courses standouts for ardent golfers. A brief history of each course, an experiential account-filled with local color-from the person recommending the venue, and trip-planning advice provide adventurous readers with all the information they need to chip and putt their way around the globe.

A close-up look at golf’s top courses around the world, recommended by such experts as Nick Faldo and Christie Kerr (pro golfers), Pete Dye and Tom Doak (course architects), Brian McCallen (editor and author), and Donald Trump
With breathtaking color photographs of each site, this is a great gift for avid golfers and armchair travelers alike

Fifty Places to Play Golf Before You Die: Golf Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations

Golf Courses: Fairways of the World

This pictorial journey across 80 golf courses around the globe is the ideal fantasy playground for the golf aficionado. Sports photographer David Cannon captures courses that range from oceanside to marshy to mountains, and the perspective on these green panoramas is enough to make any golfer pack his bagsand his clubs. ~Palm Beach Illustrated

[A] handsome, full-color, foldout-rich love letter to the worlds great golf courses, written through the wide-angle lens of his trusty camera This is golf porn in its best possible light, so savor it, guilt-free. ~Fairways + Greens

Cameron is the official shuttermeister for the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, so he had access to some not-so-easy-to-get-into courses, like Pine Valley and Seminole. ~Quest

Photographer David Cannon began his career in sports photography 25 years ago and is considered the premier golf photographer in the world. Having played more than 700 courses in over 40 countries, Cannon photographs with a true golfers eye, offering an extraordinary window into some of the worlds most celebrated courses. ~Rosewood

Photographer David Cannon began his career in sports photography twenty-five years ago and is considered the premier golf photographer in the world. Having played at more than seven hundred golf courses in over fifty countries, Cannon photographs with a true golfer’s eye, offering an extraordinary window into some of the world’s most celebrated courseswith more than 40 in North America, dozens in Asia and the South Pacific, and several in both Africa and the Middle East. Savor a view from the 11th hole of the incomparable and historic St. Andrews’s Old Course bathed in golden afternoon light; glimpse giraffes and elephants from any green at Leopard Creek, South Africa; vicariously experience Pirate’s Plank, the harrowing 15th hole at Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand, which is set at the very end of the clifftop fairway surrounded by dramatic 500-foot drops to the ocean; and take in the serene sea view from the signature 18th hole of the very private Seminole Golf Course in Florida. Golf Courses stunningly captures the singular genius and beauty of golf courses. It is a comprehensive collection of the world’s best courses by revered designers including Donald Ross, Pete Dye, and Robert Trent Jones, Sr., and such new talent as Steve Smyers and Tom Doak, among many othersall of whom skillfully orchestrate the exceptional union of nature and course design on five continents. This deluxe, limited-edition volume features over two hundred sumptuous color photographs of courses, some of which have never been photographed or published previously, in full spreads and gatefoldssome measuring over five feet in lengthand includes a numbered print signed by the photographer. Golf Courses: Fairways of the World will be strictly limited to 5,000 copies.

Golf Courses: Fairways of the World