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Welcome to my new website.  For 40 years I have been traveling the globe and writing about it all—the sights, the culture, the food and the wine—from the best new restaurants in New York to the best old trattorias in Rome, from the vineyards of Napa Valley to the cellars of Champagne.     For three decades I searched out the Best New Restaurants of the Year for Esquire Magazine and wrote  a wine column for Bloomberg News for ten.  I now write a twice-weekly column for Huffington Post.  I have chronicled everything from la nouvelle cuisine to New American Cuisine, found the best pizza in Naples and the best BBQ in Texas. By using the best travel and food writers around, all of it is the subject of my weekly Mariani’s Virtual Gourmet Newsletter, now in its 14th year of publication.     I want this site to be totally interactive with my readers.  Want to visit a horse farm in Lexington, Kentucky? A cul-de-sac bistro in Paris? Climb a glacier in Iceland? Just ask. That’s what this site is for—to make travel easier for the individual with his or her own tastes and passions.  Check out the current issue or consult nine years of archives.     Best of all, the Virtual Gourmet Newsletter is free to everyone, to use, to debate, to learn and to enjoy.  Let me know how you like it. And remember, go everywhere but go prepared. -- John Mariani

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