Category: dining out
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Orlando Bourbon
I wasn’t much looking forward to my three day trip to Orlando. I’m kinda done with traveling alone. While I would know one person at the conference at which I was presenting — my co-author — that was likely going to be it. After days on end of gray mountain skies, the promise of sunshine…
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Escape to the Big City: 36 hours in Asheville
I should escape to Asheville more often. It is about 5 times as large (population of around 87,000 compared to 18,000) and feels like a big city compared to Boone. But mostly it feels bigger to me because it has lots more great restaurants! While there are a handful of restaurants in this area that…
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Lunch at Phoenicia Gourmet
A couple of weeks ago while on the Gulf coast, I had a lovely lunch with a friend at Phoenicia Gourmet, a Mediterranean restaurant in downtown Ocean Springs, Mississippi which my sister had suggested. Had I known how good it was going to be I would have taken pictures, made note of our charming waiter’s name, and…
Carolina Bon Vivant 