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...Laurentiis and Goin occupy completely different strata in the food world, but both are accomplished cooks. De Laurentiis, 35, is the host of a Food Network program, Everyday Italian, that has become so successful that it airs 14 times a week. She just finished a 34-city tour for Giada's Family Dinners, her second best seller in two years. On the day I joined the tour in the Bay Area last month, more than 1,200 people waited in line for up to three hours to see her. I heard half a dozen young women tell De Laurentiis they...
...will be devoted to gastronomic pleasures and wine tasting. The region's 57 appellations will be on hand, including Bordeaux's prestigious reds and sweet Sauternes, but also dry whites, rosés and sparkling wines. Châteaus up and down the Garonne will be open for vineyard tours. Classical, popular and world-music concerts every evening will further intoxicate the senses. An exhibition, "Passion for Art, Passion for Wine," will draw from private collections around Bordeaux and include works by Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Bernard Pagès. Visitors thus get a chance to both...
...from December to March. Across town, chef Iliana de la Vega has had similar success with the courses she offers at her acclaimed restaurant El Naranjo. "There's no question that there's a growing interest in this type of travel," says David Iverson, who runs A Cook's Tour, a Seattle-based agency specializing in culinary trips. He launched his business with a single trip for eight people to Italy in 2001. This year the company will offer more than 30 international excursions for 400 - including four to Oaxaca, where travelers spend a week cooking at Casa Oaxaca restaurant...
...Times-Herald reporter on the federal-law beat, Lehrer covered former president John F. Kennedy’s 1963 campaign tour in Dallas, Texas—an assignment that placed him just miles away from Kennedy’s assassination that same day. Lehrer would later author the formerly anonymous tribute engraved on a memorial erected at the site of the assassination...
...Monaco this summer,” Fisher writes in an e-mail. “You can be sure that we took her up on her offer.” When not performing in the palaces of European royalty, Fisher will lead a six-continent, 24-country world tour this summer as the group’s tour manager. But Fisher isn’t a narrow artist. The English concentrator confesses that film is his passion. He has spent his summers working for production companies such as Fox and Sony Pictures Studio. Back on the East Coast...