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  <title><![CDATA[Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; Join Cheryl and Bill Jamison, James Beard Award winners of &lt;i&gt;The Big Book of Outdoor Cooking and Entertaining&lt;/i&gt;, on a gastronomic tour around the world &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt; After years of writing award-winning cookbooks, renowned culinary experts Cheryl and Bill Jamison were ready to take a break. So in the fall of 2005 they packed their bags, locked up their house in Santa Fe, and set off on a three-month-long visit to ten countries&amp;#8212;all on frequent-flier miles. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Among their stops were: &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Bali&lt;br&gt; Where they celebrated a second honeymoon in Ubud and encountered a rogue monkey &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Australia&lt;br&gt; Where they found the world's best breakfast sandwich and visited family-owned wineries &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Thailand&lt;br&gt; Where they took a wild ride on an elephant in an enormous forest reserve &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; India&lt;br&gt; Where they found themselves in the midst of Diwali, the Festival of Lights &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; China&lt;br&gt; Where they attended a banquet of local Chiu Chow cuisine that required hours of preparation by the &quot;Emeril of Chaozhou&quot; and forty cooks &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; South Africa&lt;br&gt; Where they went on a safari among rhinos, giraffes, and very hungry lions &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Brazil&lt;br&gt; Where they soaked in the sun and Creole flavors of the coastal town of Salvador &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Combining the intelligence and humor of Anthony Bourdain with the charm and insight of Frances Mayes, &lt;i&gt;Around the World in 80 Dinners&lt;/i&gt; transforms traveling into an unforgettable odyssey. &lt;/p&gt;</default-description>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is their twentieth wedding anniversary and the Jamisons decide to celebrate by taking a three-month trip around the world, stopping in places known for their excellent cuisine. The Jamisons make stops in Bali, Australia, Thailand, India, China, South Africa, and Brazil and find great food in ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64827185">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A few times I doubted I would finish this book. I was excited to get my hands on this one after reading some reviews but I found the writing and insight disapointing and found myself skimming over chapters with lengthy hotel descriptions, tedious detail and lackluster excursions.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am in the middle of this book. I just finished the Thai chapter and am on to the India chapter but I have to admit that I'm having a hard time finishing this. I don't think I'll make it to the end... which was unexpected when I picked this one up because I love food and travel books. I had high ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40414519">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had such high hopes for this book. &quot;Around the World&quot;...&quot;Culinary Adventure&quot;...the lovely cover. Hopes can be crushed.<br/><br/>First, where they went: Bali, Australia, New Caledonia, Singapore, Thailand, India, China, South Africa, France, Brazil. Seven of ten in the South P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55617350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28264715">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[We'll see how this goes...I haven't actually gotten to the food stuff because of the excruciating detail the first chapter goes into in setting up the travel plans.  It reads like an ad for American Airlines, ONEworld members, the Alliance Web, and all the other business acronyms, complete with mult...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28264715">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52833596">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure what kept me interested in this book other than the stated goal of eating one's way around the world.  The writing was often awkward and I was disappointed in many ways.  I would rather have read more about the countries the authors visited and less about  the irrelevant minutiae of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52833596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this book. It combines two of my favorite things: eating and traveling. It was a weird point of view though- the authors spoke about themselves in the third person. <br/><br/>Also, the descriptions of food got really boring. <br/>I couldn't finish it and I just took it back t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60510419">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44379289">
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise of this book, eating your way around the world, really appealed to me. However, in execution, the authors were self-centered, pompous and horrific food critics. The majority of the book ignores the food they eat and focuses on their difficulties in finding flights and exploiting their fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44379289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like being stuck in the back seat on a long car trip with someone's babbling grandma, on and on about people you don't know, food you can't visualize, book with no pictures.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book could have been much better if the writing was better. The tense constantly switched from 3rd person to 1st person plural and was very ditracting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My only disappointment with this book is the style in which is was written. I was not always sure who was telling the story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. The authors were very descriptive of both the places they visited and the food they ate. Though I am not much of a &quot;fancy-food&quot; person, much of what they tried sounded delicious and might inspire me to try it someday. Other things were a little more out of my co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21783482">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38446622">
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    <body><![CDATA[The authors seem like nice people, but pretty full of themselves and their food-snootiness. It gets tiring after a while. Interesting encounters with locals, though.]]></body>
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    <review id="73700862">
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    <body><![CDATA[An enlightening travel book from a foodie perspective. Good humor, delightful writing.]]></body>
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    <review id="43004600">
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    <body><![CDATA[A better title could perhaps be &quot;Two Old Gits Follow Fodor's Guides in a Couple of Countries&quot;.]]></body>
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    <review id="61779908">
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    <body><![CDATA[Mmmm...I liked this couple a lot, but they were afraid to eat street food and sooner or later the book really just turned into a list of meals...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not think that 3 months pregnant is the best time to try and get into this book - I'll try it again when the thought of food is more appealing!]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 30 16:52:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because I am interested in food and travel and thought the concept was a fun idea.  It was interesting reading about the authors' adventures-but at times it got a bit too detailed and precious.  Sometimes I skimmed.  Useful contact information at the end of each chapter if you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23339537">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 19 10:07:40 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll use the book for some of the recipes which are in there, but the text is about 2 fuddy-duddies in my opinion who tell about their experiences of eating and dining in a not-so-interesting way. I really lost interest after reading they spent $500 on 1 meal for 2 people. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Among the many gourmet meals the authors sampled on their trip, none could surpass the offerings of the Spur Steak Ranch at the Cape Town airport.  Apparently, &quot;The Legend of the Giant Burger&quot; lives on.  It almost makes me want to go there for Thanksgiving dinner...]]></body>
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