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When you
book a trip through Davisville Travel and you find a
wonderful restaurant. read a great book or shop at a
unique store send us your recommendation and we will
put you in a drawing for a round trip ticket to
Europe. We will happily add your recommendation to
our Review list. Simply send Melissa an email
and consider it done.
melissa@davisvilletravel.com
Recommended web site addresses:
www.amazon.com
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Davisville Travel's recommended books for your
journey.
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Cook's Tour: In
Search of the Perfect Meal, by Anthony Bourdain
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The Paris Cook
Book,
by Patricia
Wells
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The Lovely Bones,
by
Alice Sebold
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Girl with a Pearl
Earring, by Tracy
Chevalier
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Mistress of Spices, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
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Prince of Tides, by Pat Conway
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree,
by Thomas Friedman......Recommender by Judy Smith
who finds this read relevant to our times.
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The Apprentice: My
Life In The Kitchen, by Jacques Pepin (Author) for
someone who has read books about food and wine, you
might like to know that Jacques Pepin's memoir, The
book has just hit
the Amazon book shelves.
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Shipping News,
by Annie Proulx
Latest additions
The
House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and
Los Alamos
by Peggy Pond Church. Recommended by Diane
Hamlyn
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Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -
A must see movie recommended by Andie
Lauro - "a thinking man or woman's quirky love story
written by Charlie Kaufmann of "Adaptation" fame.
This movie attempts again to answer the age old
question, is it better to have loved and lost than
never to have loved at all. Jim Carrey, even if you
don't normally like him, is great."
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Bagdad
Cafe - 1987 West
German / American - Director Percy Adlon..... A black comedy set in a California desert truck
stop, featuring an ensemble cast in an off beat
character study..... submitted and recommended by
Roy Warren Tatman
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Bend It Like
Beckham, Sundance Film Dance Festival
selection. A British comedy about a young east
Indian girl who would like to play professional
soccer, caught between her culture and her dreams.
Submitted and recommended by Shirlee McKibbin.
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Monsoon
Wedding, recommended by Melissa Chandon
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Rabbit Proof
Fence, Recommended by Shirlee McKibbin
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Mostly Martha,
a must see movie about love, cooking and family.....
submitted and recommended by Melissa Chandon
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Shipping News, Director: Lasse
Hallström, starring:
Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore
The Movie List Continued:
Rediscovered Classics
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Indochine,
recommended by Melissa Chandon. We just rented the
movie a couple of weeks ago for the second time, a
must see! Please visit Melissa's website and see the
wonderful art-work she creates.
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Two for the
Road, recommended by Shirlee McKibbin.
A must see, the clothes are great, a wonderful
travel movie about love and relationships and
traveling Europe. A 70's movie featuring Albert
Finney and Audrey Hepburn.
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Dr Zhivago,
Shirlee is going for the classic love story. a
heartbreaker, if you have not seen this movie
because you are too young... Rent it now.
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Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
Sundance, an online catalogue that features
wonderful Jewelry, apparel, footwear, accessories,
home decor, furniture and gifts.
http://www.sundancecatalog.com
La
Tuile à Loup,
35 Rue
Daubenton 75005 Paris France, a
wonderful little shop loaded
with wonderful French Provincial pottery. We
visited the store on our last tour to Paris in the
Spring of 2003. A must visit.
http://www.latuilealoup.com
The French Laundry: Anthony Bourdain
author of "Cook's Tour: In Search of the
Perfect Meal", recommended the French Laundry
located in Napa Valley in the quaint little town of
Yountville. During an interview on NPR he
stated that after touring the world They served his
favorite meal. For reservations count on a
year in advance.
Le Balzar:
One of the culinary institutions of the Latin
Quarter. Close to the Sorbonne, this timeless
brasserie has a menu of traditional dishes. The
excellent service, in an original 1930s atmosphere,
makes this an incomparable restaurant in a lively
neighborhood.
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49, rue des Ecoles 75005
Paris
Métro: Cluny La Sorbonne (10)
Tél: 33.(0)1.43.54.13.67
Fax:33.(0)1.44.07.14.91
Contact: M. Daniel Gabillaud
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E.Dehillerin:
18 et
20, rue Coquillière - 51, rue Jean- Jacques Rousseau - 75001
PARIS. Culinary equipment mecca. This
family business has kept the tradition of French kitchen
culture alive since 1820. Located in the Marais
district of Paris.
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Brasserie Bofinger, Paris.
7 rue de la Bastille, Paris.
Tel 0033 1 42 72 87 82.
At the grand old age of 134, it lays reasonable claim to
being the very father of the Parisian brasserie. It was
opened in 1864 by FrÀdÀric Bofinger, a refugee from war-torn
Alsace on France's north-eastern border with Germany. The
first Bofinger was tiny: little more than a bar that served
draught beers - it was the first establishment in Paris to
do so - and charcuterie. It soon became fashionable and has
remained that way, as it has expanded and grown, through
four different owners, including a stint under one of the
Rothschild family.
Today it occupies almost the entirety of the rue de la
Bastille, its brilliant red awnings decorated with an over
sized gold 'B' making it look a little like a galleon about
to set sail. Inside it is a confection of dark polished
wood, shining brass and comfortable banquettes. The whole of
the interior - including the deliciously Victorian urinals
in the basement - is now a protected national monument. But
the crowning glory is the intricate glass dome above the
central dining room. 'Everybody asks to sit in here,' says
Jean-Luc Blanlot, Bofinger's director. 'People book weeks
ahead to be able to sit beneath it.' Upstairs there is the
rather more rustic Hansi room, named after the Alsatian
artist whose gloweringly Teutonic landscapes decorate its
walls, and a series of other wood panelled salons and
private rooms. Bofinger seats 300. Each day a staff of
around 100 - 30 of them in the kitchen - serve 800 diners.
'This is one of the important things about a brasserie,' M.
Blanlot says. 'It must always be busy.'
As to the food, it is drawn straight from the French
brasserie hymnal and done just about as well as it can be
done. 'We serve 80 orders of soupe a l'oignon every evening,
and each week we use 90 kilos of foie gras,' says M. Blanlot.
But there are two dishes, he says, which are key to the idea
of the brasserie in general, and Bofinger in particular. The
first is the fruits de mer: they serve six different types
of oyster at Bofinger, all of which are kept on display on a
stall which, by tradition and convenience, stands outside on
the pavement, a symbol of the seriousness with which the
place it guards approaches its food. There are also lobsters
and mussels, scallops and langoustine, available by
themselves or on vast, ice-laden platters rising to Le Royal
Bofinger at £60 for two.
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