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Tour de Food
August - September 2011A Foodie Philosopher Shares One Dish at a Time Imagine having the opportunity to taste bread that was baked in a traditional tachelhit clay oven after a day of shopping in Morocco. Or perhaps breakfast at a 100-acre family farm in India is more your speed. There’s always the almond-olive oil cake nibbled while touring…
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Crash Course: Napa
August - September 2011Weekends at the Culinary Institute of America For the food and wine enthusiast, Napa Valley is our nearest nirvana. Due north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate, the valley is surrounded by breathtaking vistas, colorful characters, majestic vineyards and prestigious wineries that grace the landscape. Furthermore, it’s no surprise that The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)…
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Om’s Sweet Home
August - September 2011Finding a Spiritual Connection in Hawi Sometimes, you need more than a vacation. You need a retreat. The dictionary defines this as a departure, to pull away or retire. In Hawi on the Big Island, you’ll find an oasis perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific that is indeed the perfect place to retire from…
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A Santa Barbara State of Mind
August - September 2011Spanish Style on the California Coastline By Bekah Wright Round a certain curve on Highway 101 and suddenly dramatic cliffs hug a stretch of beach slicked by the Pacific Ocean. With beauty such as this, it’s easy to understand how Santa Barbara gained the moniker “The American Riviera.” Why leave Hawai’i’s paradise for another seaside…
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Cowboy Refined
June - July 2011The Charm, Sleekness & Bravado of Dallas, Texas By Margie Jacinto AS A HAWAI’I GAL CURRENTLY LIVING IN THE THROES OF THE WILD SOUTHWEST, I am rather familiar with the jaw- dropping vistas, cuisine prepared by award-winning chefs and tony lodgings that are commonplace throughout the islands. They are admittedly tough to beat. But while…
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Your Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy (Come to Life)
June - July 2011PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENNIFER HAMMER THE DREAM. WE’VE ALL HAD IT, some of us while we’re still awake, standing in a crowded arena or, perhaps, in the back of a theater. You’ve swapped places with Madonna, Jimmy Page, even Frank Sinatra-and throngs of adoring fans are now cheering, screaming, fawning over your every hip shake, each…
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Plein Camaraderie
April - May 2011By Charlie Miller Aldinger CLAUDE MONET ESCAPED THE HEAT OF PARIS by traveling to Giverny, where the gardens, lily ponds and picturesque bridges captured his imagination. His friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted on the banks of the Seine River, in Guernsey on the English Channel, and in later years, on a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer near the…
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Moroccan Desert Duo
April - May 2011Blending Town & Country at La Mamounia and Kasbah Tamadot By Donna Heiderstadt THE HOT MOROCCAN SUN HOVERS-its final moments above the gathering crowd in Djemaa el Fna square as I take in the dusty, diaphanous panorama. Rose-hued walls surrounding Marrakech’s medina give off a cinematic glow. Through the airwaves, the haunting call of a…
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Field of Dreams
February - March 2011Fantasy Campers Swing with SF Giant Legends By Dave Reardon FOR ANYONE WHO CONSIDERED THEMSELVES A BASEBALL FAN IN THE EARLY 1980s, the name Bill Laskey hits home faster than a Tim Lincecum heater. The league’s best right-handed rookie-with the single most wins in both his first and second seasons-Laskey also earned another title: He…
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Come Sail Away
February - March 2011The Tide is Rising for Luxury Yachting in Hawai‘i AS ODD AS IT MAY SEEM, Hawai’i has never been a beacon for attracting the luxury yachting community. Be it our distance from another significant land mass, or the general laid-back nature of our approach to luxury, it’s infrequent that we spot the sleek yachts that…
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