“I’ve always been intrigued by the comforting nature of food,” says Sarah Addison Allen, the Asheville, N.C., author of the 2007 best-seller Garden Spells, her debut.
The Sugar Queen (Bantam, $22), her new novel, features various characters deeply involved in food rituals, none more so than Josey Cirrini, a lovelorn 27-year-old who fills her need with [...]
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Jun
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Apr
For travelers with little interest in beaches, golf or spas but a passion for horticulture, travelandleisure.com has come up with a list of the world;s top 10 botanical gardens.
Elizabeth Scholtz, director emeritus of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, said there;s been a huge increase in garden travel.
Gardens are such a wonderful refuge, and more and more, [...]
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Mar
Museumquality art and natural history shows amid the flowers at botanical gardens
Posted by admin Published in TourNEW YORK — Spring is the loveliest time of year to visit a public garden. Cherry trees bloom, lilacs perfume the breeze and tulips color the landscape.
But many botanical gardens offer additional reasons to visit - art shows and exhibits you might normally expect to find in a gallery or natural history museum. Some events [...]
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Jan
As new retirees exchange time cards for Social Security checks, many also follow
their dreams by flying the coop.
Some head straight for laid-back country living: chopping wood, raising horses
or chickens, slipping into small-town life. Others see the kaleidoscope of opportunity
in city life as a retirement bonus and grab a condo or [...]
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Jan
Top destinations maintain holiday traditions - if you don’t want to
Posted by admin Published in TourNEW YORK %26#8212; Thanksgiving is always one of the busiest travel times of the year. But not everybody is heading home to mom. Some folks go skiing, some head to Orlando or Vegas, others cram the streets of New York and Chicago to watch parades. And some far-flung families gather at a hotel instead of [...]
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Jan
Visual thrills just a hike away in Blue Ridge Mountains of N.C.
Posted by admin Published in nabokov novelLITTLE SWITZERLAND, N.C. � Sitting atop Table Rock Mountain on a sunny fall day, admiring the panoramic splendor of the Blue Ridge Mountains from about 3,900 feet up, can be a magical experience.
The view extends for miles in all directions. You can see at least six distinct mountain ridges: the most distant are, in fact, [...]
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Dec
Hundreds of luminarias light the driveway and terrace. The home, in the style of a French chateau, is filled with nearly 100 beautifully decorated trees, more than 1,000 wreaths and bows, 1,500 poinsettias, 25,000 lights, 9,000 feet of fresh garland and thousands of ornaments. Breathtaking? Yes. Daunting? You bet. The Biltmore, in Asheville, [...]
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