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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

A few years ago I had the joy of spending a few nights on Peru's Amantani island, which is on Lake Titicaca and at an elevation of 12,000 feet. The island has no electricity, so we ate on dirt floors by candlelight in the kitchen quarters of the home. Our hostess made a delectable soup from a variety of local potatoes and vegetables - cooked on an open fire. What a simple but unforgettable meal and experience.

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Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'

I marinate a whole chicken overnight in teriyaki and garlic, then the next night it's ready for roasting - scrumptious! I serve it with steamed brussel sprouts doused with lemon and a side of basmati rice.

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Cook the Book: 'Olives and Oranges'

baby carrots - I could eat the whole bag in one sitting!

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Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food

Smoked salmon and cream cheese on a yummy cracker

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

A few years ago I had the joy of spending a few nights on Peru's Amantani island, which is on Lake Titicaca and at an elevation of 12,000 feet. The island has no electricity, so we ate on dirt floors by candlelight in the kitchen quarters of the home. Our hostess made a delectable soup from a variety of local potatoes and vegetables - cooked on an open fire. What a simple but unforgettable meal and experience.

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Cook the Book: 'The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook'

I marinate a whole chicken overnight in teriyaki and garlic, then the next night it's ready for roasting - scrumptious! I serve it with steamed brussel sprouts doused with lemon and a side of basmati rice.

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Cook the Book: 'Olives and Oranges'

baby carrots - I could eat the whole bag in one sitting!

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Cook the Book: Wine Bar Food

Smoked salmon and cream cheese on a yummy cracker

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Cook the Book: 'The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook: The Original Classics'

I love watching Martha show off all her projects. I can't help but think cooking something from her book would be an exciting adventure and would turn out scrumptious!

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Weekend Book Giveaway: The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

There's olive oil and there's Italian olive oil. *Real* Italian olive oil, like the kind an Italian family makes from their own olive groves. That to me is what's essential in a delectible Italian dish.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

Five years ago I had the opportunity to travel to Thailand. While there I got to eat stir fried ants. It sounds gross but the ants didn't really have much taste to them (they were kinda lemon-y). I also had the chance to eat street food, mmmm... pad thai, so good.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

On my trip to Beijing I tried fried milk and it was quite tasty.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

Had an amazing goat cheese and tomato tart in Paris. Also tried escargot for the first time. Quite good.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

The Lake District in Great Britain. We hiked the fog shrouded hills from Farmhouse and/or pub to the next one on our itinerary.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

My husband and I traveled to South Africa on our honeymoon. We ate and drank ourselves sick over three weeks, but I think the most memorable meal was at this fish and chips shack right on the ocean. It had it's own pier, and we watched the boats bringing in the catch while we ate. Had a wonderful meal of fried hake with delicious Windhoek beer from Namibia. I'd go back right now if I could...

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

Just food from a street vendor in the Bahamas.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

Going back to my native Grenada. garrettsambo@aol.com

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

We visited Mexico last year and had a wonderful time. Got to eat some super mex food. Had super appetizer at one place called empanadas

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

Years ago, when I was a young teenager, I travelled to Shandong province in China accompanied by my older sister and cousins. It was a trip our parents sent us on to "discover our roots". Little did they know that the tour guides provided 10-15 1 liter bottles of beer at every meal as a sign of courtesy...made for interesting times at the hotel afterwards! Our distant relatives lived in a rural village and came unexpectedly to pick us up so we could stay with them and pay respects to our ancestors buried in a neighboring vineyard. We drove in a minibus on rough roads making little conversation with our limited mandarin. Hours into the trip my cousin and I severely needed a rest stop. The only thing around was a small farm where we stopped. The old farmer sat on a fence eating corn with black fingernails and nodded towards two old wooden walls facing the fields. We walked over to them and peeked over the other side. There was nothing there but a dozens of horseflies hovering over a hole with an ancient form of a sewage system...millions of worms which lived off excrement! Beggars cannot be choosers so we took turns swatting the horseflies off each other's bare bottoms. I've never felt closer to my cousin and it's always been a memory that makes me laugh out loud.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

I went to Mexico with my Grandmother as kid and her friend's granddaughter was offering me candy. Except what she was eating wasn't candy, it was Alka-Seltzer. I tried to explain in my broken Spanish that it wasn't candy but she didn't believe me.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

I had a wonderful meal in the historic part of San Juan, Puerto Rico that included flan and mufungo. It was delicious and the atmosphere was wonderful.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

When my sister and I were young and stupid we rented a pickup truck and drove across Honduras through very remote areas. It was a fantastic trip with lots of adventures (like the truck breaking down!)

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

We've travelled all over the world, but my favorite travel adventure story was when we got locked in the St. Louis cemetery in New Orleans.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

The closest I can come here, is that I cross-country skied in Aspen and ate elk at the end of the day.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

we roamed the outback in austrailia, it was wonderfully empty

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

I tried to do up my first batch of Chinese food just right. I'd bought a wok, several jars of seasonings, and all the ingredients for stir-fry chicken seasoned with Szechuan peppercorns. The recipe called for the peppercorns to be roasted in an open pan. I wasn't paying attention, and the pan started to smoke. I had to air out the house for several hours. I decided to use other seasonings, like chili paste with garlic or hot sauce if I wanted a kick to the meal. It was a lot safer.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

I have not traveled very much but my first trip up north (obviously, I am from the Deep South) was the awakening to strange, new foods. What a different culinary world that was. None of the food was anything we tasted as kids. We did not eat out as children and only was accustomed to what we ate at home. We had never heard of pizza much less all the other foreign restaurants and their different smells. I became especially enamored with Greek cuisine. To this day, a gyro and baklava is still one of my favorite meals. I may have missed sweeten tea and butter laden grits but what I discovered to take their place was amazing. I had traveled to a wild remote island named New York City.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

I traveled in Nepal and India much of 1969-1972, my advice, always eat what the natives are having.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

I haven't traveled out of the country yet, but I will be going to China within the next year to get my adopted baby girl from China. So winning this would have special meaning for me!

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

Vietnam-at an open air food market in Saigon, I enjoyed soft shell crabs for the first time-delicious. In Hoi An I had great French pastries.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

I have not been lucky enough to do too much traveling, but going way upstate New York, near St. Lawrence College and the Canadian border was quite the trip. Instead of American flags everyone had Canadian flags flying! It was like we were in a whole other land.

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Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'

Many many years ago, as a young single touring Europe alone, I arrived on the beautiful Mykonos, met a Greek cutie within a hour off the ferry, only to switch my "affection" within the next hour to his friend -- who became my near-constant tour guide and meal master for a week which ended too soon. My first meal, that night, was a huge, just-caught lobster. He showed me all around the island, and we would join his friends. I especially enjoyed a home meal with a big, noisy group of his relatives. Mostly we ate at small restaurants where he knew the owners, and nearly always al fresco. Sometimes we went into their kitchens, and chose our meal by pointing to the pots of food which looked to us. Now there's a menu! I quickly learned to have a salad and retsina with whatever else we ate at lunch and dinner, and to have an occasional ouzo! Great sunshine-y fun! Perfect, perfect.

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