Tips & Reviews
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Food and Culture in Europe, Part I
Food and Culture in Europe, Part I My first meal with Paola’s family in Italy was memorable. When Paola leaned over to me and said, “the more you eat, the more they’ll like you,” I had no worries. I was… Read full article
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Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby There is no scarcity of personal memoirs of World War II. Yet Eric Newby’s narrative of war, escape, love, and peasant farmers in Italy’s Apennine mountains in 1944 has lasted thirty… Read full article
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Al Young, Shifting Gears, My Global Bike Odyssey (including an interview with the author)
Al Young, Shifting Gears, My Global Bike Odyssey (including an interview with the author) Shifting Gears: My Global Bike Odyssey by Al Young Trafford Publishing, Victoria, 2005 (See the end of the review for details on how to purchase… Read full article
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Are you a Bicycle or Walking Advocate?
Are you a Bicycle or Walking Advocate? Our friend, Verdiana Vandini, still bicycles to the gelateria for gelato (Italian ice cream) at age 75! Shown here in February 2005 in Italy Variables in your local bike and pedestrian advocacy program:… Read full article
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The Race
by David Shields – reviewed by Rick Price I think I reached chapter seven before I realized that I was reading a novel, and not a biography of a Tour de France racer. I picked up Dave Shields’ book, The… Read full article