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Zora O'Neill

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born

July 15, 1972 in The United States

gender

female

website

http://rovinggastronome.com

genre

Cooking, Food & Wine, Travel, Nonfiction

member since

September 2009

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Zora has been in the kitchen since she was 3, and has the bacon-fat burns to prove it. But she really taught herself to cook in her early 20s, and that skill has proved far more useful than anything she learned in grad school.

When Zora moved to New York City (from New Mexico via New Jersey, Indiana, Holland and Egypt) in 1998, she chose where to live based on the 24-hour produce stands in lovely Astoria, Queens. When she's not home in the neighborhood cooking Sunday Night Dinner with Tamara Reynolds, she picks up new flavors on the road, in her work as a guidebook author for Rough Guides, Lonely Planet and Moon. She pays special attention to street carts, produce markets, and local culinary specialties. The finds wind up in her guidebooks,...more

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Zora O'Neill's Blog

Doha, the Rest of the Story

For spending about 72 hours in a country, I sure managed to collect a lot of photos and deep thoughts. I think the short time in Qatar made it that much easier to distill the whole visit.

Meanwhile, all my driving around the Emirates is all loose and floppy in my head, and I’m still fiddling with what I got out of it (aside from some funny pictures).

I’ll just throw a few more Doha photos at you...

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Books by Zora O'Neill

Average rating: 3.80 · 49 ratings · 16 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Forking Fantastic!: Put the Party Back in Dinner Party by Zora O'Neill (Goodreads Author), Tamara Reynolds 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Rough Guide to the Yucatan by Zora O'Neill (Goodreads Author), John Fisher 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Rough Guide to the Yucatan by Zora O'Neill (Goodreads Author), John Fisher 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Moon Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Moon New Mexico 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Moon Santa Fe, Taos & Albuquerque 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	The Rough Guide to Cancun and the Yucatan: Includes the Maya Sites of Tabasco & Chiapas 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	Amsterdam Encounter by Lonely Planet Publications (Manufactured by), Zora O'Neill (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Rough Guides' Cancun & Cozumel Directions 1 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Moon Santa Fe 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

by Hampton Sides

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Jul 01, 2011 10:31pm

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Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century

by Daniel Hernandez

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Zora O'Neill wrote a new blog post: Spring Cleaning and Queens Writers Spring Cleaning and Queens Writers That's me, chillin' in Astoria. (Actually, Donald Baechler sculpture at the Fisher Landau art center in LIC.) I’m back in Astoria. Not for long, bu... read more »
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Zora O'Neill gave to: Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents by Elisabeth Eaves	My rating:
Apr 08, 2012 02:04pm
Zora O'Neill gave to: Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold by Michael Benanav	My rating:
Really fascinating. I missed my subway stop both ways because I was so engrossed. Particularly good background on Tuareg culture.
Apr 08, 2012 02:00pm · see review
Zora O'Neill made a comment on her review of Cloud Atlas "Movie?! I had no idea. I'm so out of the loop. [googling] OMG--it looks like an excellent project. "
Apr 03, 2012 06:53am · see review
Zora O'Neill added: Lost Voices by Sarah Porter (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Mar 31, 2012 10:30pm
Zora O'Neill made a comment on David Prince's review of The Invention of Hugo Cabret "And the movie...I totally missed! Will check it all out. Thanks! "
Mar 26, 2012 07:35am · see review
Zora O'Neill marked as to-read: The Task of This Translator by Todd Hasak-Lowy	My rating:
Mar 25, 2012 08:43pm
Zora O'Neill marked as to-read: The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan	My rating:
Mar 07, 2012 07:30am
Zora O'Neill marked as to-read: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steil (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Feb 28, 2012 11:39am
Zora O'Neill gave to: Bangkok Days by Lawrence Osborne read in February, 2012	My rating:
A little too meandering, and just for once I'd like to read something about Bangkok that isn't about bar girls. But this at least is only 70 percent bar-girl culture, and the other 30 percent is all kinds of other interesting tidbits.
Feb 06, 2012 11:02am · see review