I pack my suitcase and meet a friend who is driving me up to New York via what he assures me is “the greatest pizza in New York”. I have one of those prophetic feelings…I have to make a pilgrimage…I have never heard of it before, but Di Fara’s is calling my name. The drive [...]
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In the morning, I write in my hotel room and then catch the Amtrak down to Washington DC for lunch with those foolish enough to apportion part of their lives to reading Wine-Journal. I am collected from the station, one befitting the capital of the USA with its arching, austere architecture, by Rene, who has [...]
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I wake up to join the rest of the TWA team for breakfast, although I appear to be the only one succumbing to the delights of eggs over easy at the Marriot (I guess the others are swotting up on TWA scores, just in case we are tested.) I walk to a nearby restaurant for [...]
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