 | Yvonne Mason
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Website: www.yvonnemasontraveleats.com
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Food, wine & travel photojournalist. Editor and bi-weekly columnist. Contributes to Random Lengths News, San Pedro, CA., Press Telegram, Long Beach, CA. Doris Crandall's Dining Guide; Press Pass, and Global Writes.
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Eating Well in Virginia
Virginians eat quite well, from Revolutionary War-era foods to contemporary haute cuisine. I visited the state known as Old Dominion to sample what makes Virginian cuisine...well, Virginian, focusing on eateries in Charlottesville, Hanover and Richmond. Join me as I tour both historic and new establishments where chefs and winemakers have carved a distinctively Southern niche. |  |
Cuba Si/Cuba No
Cuba has intrigued me since I was very young. Perhaps it's the stories my Aunt Olga told me upon her return after a two-year stay in that country during one of the times Fulgencio Batista was its president. Perhaps it's the memory of watching my parents dancing to the Spanish language song “Bésame Mucho”, or that I once saw the unforgettable and adorable Lucy and Desi Arnaz of movie and television fame snuggling at the Chi Chi Club in the southern California desert city of Palm Springs. I had to see this country – both compelling and forbidden – for myself.
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Salvador Dali's Port Lligat, Spain and the Bay of Cadaques
Salvador Dali spent long periods of his young life in Port Lligat, and he and his beloved wife Gala spent 40 years adding on to and decorating their home there. The house is made up of a number of fisherman's huts fastened in inventive and fascinating ways, and then whitewashed. |
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