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Dear friends,

There is no love sincerer than the love of food

Client News…Hotel Kurá Hulanda opens its doors on November 1 on the Netherlands Antilles island of Curaçao and offers the Bonbiní package in celebration.  In Papiamentu (the native language of Curaçao) Bonbiní means welcome - a most appropriate sentiment for the grand opening.  The package is available November 1, 2001 through April 14, 2002.  The three-night package is $750 for a standard room and $950 for a Spa Loft Suite (additional night is $200 and $300 respectively).  A seven-night package is $1,615.00.  Rates are per room based on double occupancy.  Taxes and service charges are included.   For reservations please call (888) 660-2225 or the hotel at 011-5999-434-7700. 

We will be running a press trip to Hotel Kurá Hulanda either November 29 or December 6 – journalists please feel free to email or call us if you are interested.

Just a reminder to come out and support the Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund on November 8 when Miami Life Saveurs cooks up a storm at Baleen (4 Grove Isle Drive) in Miami.  Tickets are $75 in advance and $100 at the door – please call (305) 529-3700 for tickets and information.  The event runs 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and attire is red, white and blue or casual.

John Esposito, President/CEO of Schieffelin & Somerset Company has announced a major donation through the Johnnie Walker KEEP WALKING Fund to the Windows of Hope Family Relief Fund.  The $1 million donation is a two-part offering including $500,000 for a national PSA radio campaign and $500,000 in cash.  For details log onto www.keepwalking.com or www.windowsofhope.org.

Looking for a new wine experience but put off by high prices?   Stop by Nemo restaurant (100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) and sample the new 20 Under $20 wine menu.

We love the Miami Herald's new column \"Here's the Buzz – Spread the Word\" a new Monday feature highlighting what everyone is talking about.  This week's items include 5061 opening soon on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami.  Divinely contemporary, 5061 features a bi-level dining room with open kitchen, a deli (eat in or take out), private dining area and a bookshop/lounge upstairs featuring travel and food related books – the perfect place for cuddling up with a book and a cappuccino.

Thanksgiving in Miami Beach couldn't offer more choices!  Available Thursday, November 22 from 11:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m., Les Deux Fontaines (1230-38 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach) is offering a prix fixe Thanksgiving dinner ($19.50pp + tax and gratuity).  For reservations and the menu please call (305) 672-7878.

Get out of the kitchen and spend the much-needed time with your family and friends at Nemo's  (100 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, November 22, 2001 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.   Please call 305-532-4550 for reservations.  The four-course dinner is$38pp + tax and gratuity.

Let Big Pink (157 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) put the fun back into the family get together.  Executive Chef Michael Schwartz recreates the TV dinner complete with a six-compartment metal tray serving the full Thanksgiving Day repast.    Just ask the waiter to tune in one of the many televisions to the game or show you want to watch and dig in ($13.95).  If staying home but not cooking is your thing, then order the Big Pink Thanksgiving dinner to go 305-532-4700.

Oxygen Lounge is shaping up in Coconut Grove – designer Andy Kostas (Suite 16, Ready Bar and more) is putting the finishing touches on this sleek \"googie\" style lounge and the effect is stunning.  To find out more about this decorative style -- emanating from California in the 1960s -- log onto www.googie.com (not to be confused with google.com).  The hot feature is a light wall that is kinetic art to quote proprietor Matt Goldman, a sentiment echoed by his partners Marie Fernandez-Leon and Angel Sanchez.

Hotel Ocean (1230-38 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach) offers the Trois Reves package available now through December 30, 2001. When guests book a three-night stay at rack rates ($200 to $600 depending upon accommodations) they will be treated to lots of goodies.  Please call (800) 783-1725 for details and reservations.

Les Deux Fontaines (1230-38 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach) is hosting a media-only dinner on November 13.  Journalists who wish to attend please contact us via phone or email – a sneak preview of 5061 and a tour of Hotel Ocean are part of the evening – we hope to see you there!

Hot tips for the month… Visit Boston and Providence, RI when you have the time and want great regional cuisine.  A fun note…had to travel all the way to Boston to run into Miami Beach's very own Mayor -- Neisen Kasdin -- in front of the public library.   For the world's best hot dog stop by Spike's Junkyard Dog Thayer Street in Providence near Brown University.  For outrageous tapas dine at Dalí in Boston.  For the best in baked goods slink into Seven Stars Bakery on Hope Street, in Providence. And for outstanding salty crispy squid dine at East Ocean City in Boston.  (Credit goes to Chelsea Eyre for squiring me around the northeast.)

Books of the month…all the controversy (to Oprah or not to Oprah) doesn't diminish how terrific Jonathan Franzen's \"The Corrections\" is – read it, you'll be happy you did.  Susan Orlean's short stories in \"The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup\" are immensely amusing and engaging profiles.  Depressed or know someone that is?  Read Andrew Solomon's \"The Noonday Demon\" an articulate and deeply informative exploration of depression and its many incarnations.

Great websites… www.googie.com (see above entry).    Click on www.morningfarm.com for lots of great candles and products for the home.  Feeling stressed?  Mouse over to www.stressdirections.com.

Word of the month…gramercy…from the French (grant merci) signifying many thanks.    Bet you never thought of the many ways to say thank you and the many people that would love to hear a word of thanks.  Why not?