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...noise from the Chao Phraya might frustrate light sleepers, but the views of this watery thoroughfare - especially from the patio of the Arun Suite - are too enjoyable to pass up. So is a dinnertime reservation at the Deck, the hotel's Thai and Western restaurant. Peruse the menu of chef Thanunya Kaikaew, who has a cookbook of healthy recipes to her name, and take in the fabulous sunset. THE EUGENIA: This 12-room, colonial-style Sukhumvit gem, www.theeugenia.com, doubles as an antiques repository for Taiwanese owner and Bangkok resident Eugene Yeh. Those are Yeh's hand-beaten copper bathtubs...
...ruins, a pretty coastal village called Castiglione della Pescaia where locals reel in coach tours as plentifully as fish, and the resistable charms of the city of Grosseto. But one traveler was seduced into stopping and putting down new roots in the sandy soil nearby. Alain Ducasse, the first chef ever to win three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, followed an avenue of cypress and Tuscan pines through vineyards and olive groves and found, at the end of it, a chunky 19th century palazzo built as a hunting lodge for Leopold II, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany...
...farm and the table is an ambition shared by a growing number of restaurants. That?s also not new: it was the driving idea behind the fresh-above-all restaurants that launched the U.S. food revolution in the 1970s and ?80s. But most of those pioneering restaurants - led by chef Alice Waters? Chez Panisse - were in California, where anything can grow and where it would be silly not to supply a restaurant from a nearby farm...
...When the storm was still just a threatening cloud, chef Barber - who is also the center's creative director - took me down from Stone Barns' headquarters to its 23,000-sq.-ft. greenhouse. Wait a second: a greenhouse? Isn't that a copout? What about farm-to-table...
...Barber, 36, is a wiry guy, a talker, a fuzzy-haired and friendly type. He pretty much always wears chef's whites, but he is most passionate about farms; he grew up in New York City but worked summers at his family's farm in Massachusetts. (Full circle: that farm is named Blue Hill...