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TripAdvisor VIP survey

August 18, 2010 By Laura

TripAdvisor asked me about my favorites restaurants, hotels, and places to travel, plus my travel suggestions for San Francisco. Here's the interview: VIP Survey: Laura Fraser Author Laura Fraser (photo by Cristina Taccone) What’s your favorite hotel (and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: All Over the Map, Favorite hotels, Favorite restaurants, Food, Italy, San Francisco, Travel

A quick escape to Sardinia in San Francisco: my favorite restaurant

May 28, 2010 By Laura

I'm having the pre-book jitters, in a big way. The thing about writing a memoir is that when you're writing it, alone in your office, you get obsessed with trying to strip things down to an essential emotional truth, more naked than naked. It doesn't matter, because there you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Favorite restaurants, Food, Italy, San Francisco Tagged With: La Ciccia, San Francisco restaurants, Sardinia

Gourmet readers want a real gourmet magazine, not junk food.

May 17, 2010 By Laura

The Times ran a story today about the demise of Gourmet magazine and how its readers aren’t flocking to Bon Appetit or other cooking magazines as predicted. I'm not surprised that loyal readers, who have followed the magazine and the brand since 1941, aren't switching. Gourmet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Italy, Magazines/Media, Travel Tagged With: Aeolian Islands, Aeolian Islands cuisine, Bon Appetit, Conde Nast, Gourmet magazine, New York Times, Peruvian cuisine

Favorite restaurants in Italy this trip

September 14, 2009 By Laura

Favorite restaurants in Italy this trip

Ciao, Italia! I left Italy this morning and heard my last “arrivaderci.” I was sad to go, not only because I had a wonderful month doing stories there, I was starting to feel at home in Italy, and my Italian improved over the month, but because I have to leave that glorious … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Favorite restaurants, Italy, Uncategorized Tagged With: Don Alfonso Iaccarino, Palermo, Palermo restaurants, restaurants, Rome restuarants, Salemi

Gattopardesco: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s villa in Palermo

September 2, 2009 By Laura

I am in Palermo, and had a quintessentially Palermo experience today: I went to visit Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi di Lampedusa, who is the adopted son of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896-1957), who wrote The Leopard (“Gattopardo”), published posthumously in 1958. The book, one of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Italy, Uncategorized Tagged With: Afar.com, Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicily

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