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Rick Steves books are as close to perfect as a guidebook can get get. Always practical, accurate, great maps and waking tours, and good hotels in central historic locations. I've used them for yeras. It's all I need for my Mediterranean cruise. Now I have to decide if I want the paperback or for my Sony Reader. I guess the book, so I can tear out the sections I need and carry them in a pocket. If I could only choose one guidebook, it would always be Rick's.
I love Nigella's cookbooks. This one is interesting, not too simple and not fussy, very appetizing recipes. Pretty well adapted for American measurements and American v.s British language. What is a marrow anyway?, I've never had a definitive answer.
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Rick Steves' Mediterranean Cruise Ports (Rick Steves' Mediterranean Cruise Ports) by Rick Steves
pdxj, September 7, 2011
Rick Steves books are as close to perfect as a guidebook can get get. Always practical, accurate, great maps and waking tours, and good hotels in central historic locations. I've used them for yeras. It's all I need for my Mediterranean cruise. Now I have to decide if I want the paperback or for my Sony Reader. I guess the book, so I can tear out the sections I need and carry them in a pocket. If I could only choose one guidebook, it would always be Rick's.Feast: Food to Celebrate Life by Nigella Lawson
pdxj, November 19, 2006
I love Nigella's cookbooks. This one is interesting, not too simple and not fussy, very appetizing recipes. Pretty well adapted for American measurements and American v.s British language. What is a marrow anyway?, I've never had a definitive answer.(8 of 18 readers found this comment helpful)