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Article: meet your new food writer! Meet our new food writer; Meet Lorraine Eaton, our new food writer.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2008
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By Lorraine Eaton
The Virginian-Pilot
A treasured book, bound in faded red cloth, sports a subtitle that neatly sums up my epicurean bent: "around the world with knife, fork and spoon." Its companion, "around the world with jigger, beaker and flask" makes my mission complete.
I'm an adventurer when it comes to food.
I've savored herring in Holland, downed shots of raspberry schnapps in Germany and knocked on the back door of a shanty in Belize to buy meat pies that I could smell from the street.
On a trip to Tuscany, I skipped the splendor of Florence and headed for the hamlet where Mario Batali's mentor, the "Butcher of ...