When I think of Valentines Day I don't usually think of chocolate, roses or rings. Typically for me my romantic memories return to traveling.  Places Jackie and I have explored along the path of 28 years of dating and marriage include Paris (France, not Texas), Rome, Milan, London, Tokyo and quite literally hundreds and hundreds of other bergs, hamlets and villages.  Recently I have been enjoying a collection of R. W. Apple's food and travel writings, "Far Flung And Well Fed" that is a mantra on the glorious gluttony that world exploration can be. 

My bucket list mimics one of his final columns in the New York Times describing the ten places he would travel to, just for dinner.  Considering Mr. Apples job as a war correspondent and foreign bureau chief, his choices were indeed, "far flung".  I have knocked two off the list...

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