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This author appeared at the 2008 festival. Please view the list of authors appearing at this year's festival or see our suggestions for similar authors below.
 Cheryl Jamison
Award-winning cookbook authors and travel writers, the Jamisons harness their decades of travel and food knowledge and take readers along on their epic gastronomic journey across the globe in their humorous and informative Around the World in 80 Dinners: The Ultimate Culinary Adventure. "For decades now, ever since each of us spent a year studying and traveling in Europe during college," they write, "we've dreamed – separately at first and then together – of circling the globe with enough time to genuinely enjoy places that intrigue us." After four years of painstaking planning and cashing in hundreds of thousands of frequent flier miles, they visit 10 countries, from Bali to Brazil, in over 13 weeks, sampling each exotic locale’s regional cuisine. "Even keeping a tight focus on places with strong local food traditions, rather than worldly pretensions, our appetites went overboard on the prospects, suggesting enough possibilities to keep us running like a perpetual-motion machine for a decade," the Jamisons acknowledge. Being expert globetrotters, they provide invaluable travel tips, kindly letting readers in on what they did to make their trip possible, from their methods for getting the best airfare and hotel deals to the precautions that any smart international traveler should take (such as keeping a decoy wallet to fool pickpockets). Each chapter closes with a recipe of one of their favorite meals and contact information and recommendations for restaurants and accommodations. This book is a gem for any aficionado of food or travel writing but especially for those seeking to eat their way around the world.
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