Travel Tonic

Beth Collins recently posted this on This Just In… Newsweek’s Travel Blog:

This probably isn’t something I should admit to my boss (and by posting it on the BT website, I’m doing just that), but I just spent a full hour of my workday reading a cookbook. Not just any cookbook, mind you. It’s the gorgeous My New Orleans: The Cookbook, by award-winning chef and restaurateur John Besh—produced and edited by Dorothy Kalins, the founding editor of Saveur and the consulting editor of Budget Travel.