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...life--he is the thinking lad's Nick Hornby--and in The Art of Travel he takes on the how, the why and the what-it-all-means of wanderlust. Mining his own sometimes hapless experiences (watch for a fight of Nietzschean proportions with his girlfriend in a Barbados cafe), De Botton encourages us to savor the small pleasures of traveling: the funny spelling on a Dutch sign, a cypress tree in Provence that's straight out of a Van Gogh painting, or a stranger's kitchen glimpsed from a speeding train...
...with some careful planning, you can do it in style. I did it on a motorbike, though four-wheel drives are more readily available in Dili, the nation's capital, for around $35 a day. Fuel depots are ubiquitous but outside Dili don't expect service stations with a cafE and clean restrooms. Here fuel is sold from a roadside hut, the gas stored in jerricans, and filtered through rags that hang on goat skulls behind the attendant's counter...
Espinoza takes considerable pride in the authenticity of his recipes, ingredients and cooking methods. Scoffing at rivals such as Casa Mexico, Anna’s Taqueria, Boca Grande and especially Border Cafe, where he once worked as a waiter, he says New Englanders have no idea what real Mexican food is like...
...tons of seaweed such as hijiki and nori were imported from Japan last year, up from 554 tons in 2000. Larch Hanson, proprietor of Maine Seaweed Co., has seen orders triple in two years. "Seaweed is healthy, and people are more health conscious," says Bill Morrison, owner of Seaweed Cafe in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Other companies, trying to expand the market for the plants, are peddling them as "sea vegetables...
...went to Drip because it sounded like a gas, something different to do," says widowed kindergarten teacher Jaki Williams Florsheim, 58. She had her first date with divorced accountant Henry Florsheim, 54, at the cafe in 1999. She had asked to meet him after reading his profile. They were married a year later and now live in Brooklyn, N.Y. "If you had told me that I would meet my husband through a place like Drip," she says, "I would have said you had to be kidding...