Category: General
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More Than Mardi Gras: More Things To Do In New Orleans
Although New Orleans is well known for its Jazz music and festivities, there are many unrelated things to see as well: THINGS TO DO Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation: In 2007, Brad Pitt co-founded the Make It Right Foundation. The goal of this organization is to build 150 environmentally friendly homes in a New…
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More Than Mardi Gras-Great Food and Places to See in New Orleans
A popular saying in New Orleans, ” Laissez le Bon temp rouler” (pronounced Lazay lay Bon Tom Roulay), means “Let the good times roll!,” and the people of this city definitely live up to this credo through their food and attractions. GREAT FOOD The Big Easy is a relatively short plane ride from New York,…
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More Than Mardi Gras-Wonderful Winter Weekend in the Big Easy
This year’s New Orleans Mardi Gras festivities have just begun. But, as Robert and I discovered a little more than a month ago, there is so much more to experience in this city that is not only rich in its own unique culture and cuisine, but is also known as the birthplace of Jazz. The…
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Amazing Dead Sea Scrolls At NYC’s Discovery Time Square
Scroll Jar A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I were invited by the Discovery Times Square in Manhattan to visit the world premiere of their traveling exhibit, “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times.” Called the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times, the Dead Sea Scrolls are 2,000 year old biblical…
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Fabulous Desserts at Culinary Institute of America’s Bocuse D’Or Gala
On January 29, 2012, it was time to celebrate after Richard Rosendale was declared the USA ‘s competitor for next January’s Bocuse D’Or in Lyon, France! Now that their present obligations had been completed, the participants were now able to move about freely, and I was able to meet the chefs including Thomas Keller. Then…
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Culinary Giants At the Bocuse D’Or USA!
In 1987, Chef of the Century, Paul Bocuse, created the Bocuse d’Or World Cuisine Contest, and these culinary olympics have since been held once every two years in Lyon, France, the city of Chef Bocuse’s premier restaurant, Auberge du Point de Collognes. Twenty three countries have competed to bring home the gold statue, but only…
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Will we be able to see the Aurora in upstate New York tonight?
The Washington Post reports that, over the weekend, the earth received the largest solar storm since 2005. This occurrence created colorful northern lights called auroras after the Sun released a solar flare of radiation and plasma. Click here to read the whole story and to see an incredible gallery of pictures. Many who have seen…
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Travel gifts for your valentine
Yes, the holiday season is over, but we know what comes next- Valentine’s Day! Instead of the usual box of chocolates and flowers, what about some travel-related gift ideas for your honey? For those of us who like to listen to music while we travel, I found some nice choices at chicbuds.com. Chicbuds just launched…
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Where’s The Snow? Vacations For Skiers
If you’re like me or many of my friends and family members, you’ve been amazed at how fast this year’s winter has been flying by. My reason why time has moved so quickly? We haven’t been trapped in our homes by the crushing weather that we received last year. I don’t mind snow- after all…
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More Requests For Child-Free Flights
Over a year ago,my post, Babies on a Plane-What Do You think?,” drew many comments about this heated controversy. The New York Times recently reported that more than 800 readers graded airlines on how they were treated as a family on their last flight. The highest grade? C and that was given to Continental, Delta,…
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