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Libya militias executed Gaddafis: report
Human Rights Watch report details last hours of Gaddafi's life
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- In this file image made from amateur video provided by the Libya Youth Movement and filmed on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011, Moammar Gaddafi, center, is surrounded by Libyan fighters in Sirte, Libya.
Cairo: Libyan rebels appear to have "summarily executed" scores of fighters loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, and probably the dictator himself, when they overran his hometown a year ago, a human rights group said Wednesday.
The report by Human Rights Watch on alleged rebel abuses that followed the October 2011 capture of the city of Sirte in the final major battle of the eight-month civil war is one of the most detailed descriptions of what the group says were war crimes committed by the militias that Gaddafi, and which still play a major role in Libyan politics today.
The 50-page report, titled Death of a Dictator: Bloody Vengeance in Sirte, details the last hours of Gaddafi's life on October 20, 2011, when he tried to flee the besieged city. The longtime leader's convoy was struck by Nato aircraft as it tried to escape and the survivors were attacked by militias from the city of Misrata, who captured and disarmed the dictator and his entourage.
Misrata was subjected to a brutal weeks-long siege by Gaddafi's forces that killed hundreds of residents, and fighters from the city became among the regime's most implacable foes. HRW says it seems the Misratans took revenge against their prisoners in Sirte.
"The evidence suggests that opposition militias summarily executed at least 66 captured members of Gaddafi's convoy in Sirte," said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director at Human Rights Watch.
The New York-based group's report says that new evidence unearthed in its investigation includes a mobile phone video clip taken by militiamen showing a large number of prisoners from Gadfdfi's convoy being cursed and abused by rebels.
The remains of least 17 of the detainees in the phone video were later identified in a group of 50 bodies found at Sirte's Mahari hotel, some still with their hands tied behind their back. Human Rights Watch said it used hospital morgue photos to confirm the victims' identities.
The dictator himself was seen alive in a widely-circulated video made public shortly after the battle.
"Video footage shows that Muammar Gaddafi was captured alive but bleeding heavily from a head wound," the HRW report says. But footage showed that he was "severely beaten by opposition forces, stabbed with bayonet in his buttocks, causing more injuries, and bleeding. By the time he is filmed being loaded into an ambulance half-naked, he appears lifeless."
Bouckaert said the group's "findings call into question the assertion by Libyan authorities that Moammar Gadhafi was killed in crossfire and not after his capture."
Gaddafi's son Muatassim was also videotaped alive and in captivity, only to have his body turn up at a morgue in Misrata alongside his father's.
"In case after case we investigated, the individuals had been videotaped alive by the opposition fighters who held them and then found dead hours later," Bouckaert said. "Our strongest evidence for these executions comes from the footage filmed by the opposition forces and the physical evidence at the Mahari hotel where the 66 bodies were found."
Another victim cited by HRW as an example was 29-year-old Ahmed Al Gharyani, a navy recruit from the town of Tawergha. He was seen alive in the phone video as rebels beat him. His body was later found in the hotel and eventually identified by his family.
His hometown, Tawergha, was used as a staging ground by Gaddafi's forces to launch attacks on Misrata, but after rebels broke the siege on Misrata and overran Tawergha, the town's residents fled or were driven out by vengeful rebels.
Suleiman Al Fortia, a member of the dissolved National Transitional Council from Misrata, denied that Gaddafi or his loyalists were executed. "We hoped to arrest Gaddafi alive [to try him]. All the killings took place in a crossfire," he said.
But HRW said that "under the laws of war, the killing of captured combatants is a war crime, and Libyan civilian and military authorities have an obligation to investigate war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law."
The group released its report days before Libya celebrates "liberation day," the anniversary of Sirte's fall on October 23. Since then, the country's new leaders have heavily depended on former rebel militias to secure cities and protect borders in the absence of a strong national army or other government security forces.
Calls for militias to be brought under the control of the defence or interior ministries have met resistance from some fighters.
Meanwhile, some groups have been implicated in revenge attacks and communal strife, while members of one Islamist militia have been accused of taking part in the attack on the US Consulate in the eastern city Benghazi on September 11 that killed four Americans, including US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens.
In the aftermath of Stevens' death, popular resentment surged and thousands took to the streets of Benghazi demanding the dismantlement of the militias. The government has taken over some militia headquarters and appointed military officers to run the groups, and designated some "outlawed" and others "tolerated."
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- These teams will be meeting for the first time this season. Washington has won its last three games at Wrigley Field, recording at least 11 hits on offense in each game. Overall, the Nationals went 4-3 against the Cubs in 2013.
- Doug Fister is 6-1 with a 2.03 ERA in his last eight starts. Fister's 1.01 walks per nine innings ratio is the best in the National League since May 14 (minimum 40 IP).
- In 76 games this season, Starlin Castro has already surpassed his home run and RBI totals from 2013. He has 11 homers and 45 RBI in 2014 compared to 10 home runs and 44 RBI in 161 games last season.
- Travis Wood has not allowed more than three earned runs in seven starts at Wrigley Field this season. Despite only possessing a 3-2 home record on the year, five of his seven outings have been quality starts.
- The Nationals are hitting .280 against left-handed pitching this season -- third best mark in the majors. They hit only .232 against righties on the campaign. That +.048 batting average differential (lefties better than righties) is the highest in the majors.
- The Cubs are one of just six major-league teams to use only six starting pitchers this season. No team has used just five on the year. The Nationals are part of a group of seven MLB teams to use seven starters in 2014.
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(AP) -- Wilson Ramos is back and Bryce Harper isn't far behind, but having Tanner Roark on the mound could be just as important for the Washington Nationals.
Roark will try to get the NL East leaders untracked by winning a fifth straight start Friday night against the Chicago Cubs.
Ramos has lost 53 games to injuries this season, while Harper has been on the disabled list since April 27 due to left thumb surgery. The star left fielder could be back Monday against Colorado, and Washington (41-37) will be hoping for a smooth transition.
They got that from Ramos on Thursday when he returned from a 14-game absence due to a hamstring injury and had two hits while scoring a run in a 5-3 loss to the Cubs (33-44).
While Ramos has two hits in each of his past three games and a .364 average over his last 14, the Nationals' chances of bouncing back in this four-game set could rest on Roark (7-4, 2.79 ERA).
The right-hander leads the team in wins and has already matched his total from last season. He's won four straight starts behind a 1.48 ERA and with the help of 17 total runs of support. He got 11 over his previous five outings - a big reason why he went 1-3 despite a 2.20 ERA.
Roark's recent success continued Sunday during a 4-1 win over Atlanta in which he yielded one run and four hits while battling through 96 pitches in 5 1-3 innings.
"He wasn't throwing it exactly where he wanted to, but he was able to work through it," manager Matt Williams said. "He wanted to stay in the game when I went and got him."
Roark's only meeting with the Cubs came out of the bullpen at Wrigley Field on Aug. 21, when he was credited with an 11-6 win despite giving up two runs in 1 2-3 innings.
Denard Span is 6 for 17 (.353) with four RBIs over his last five games there. The center fielder doubled twice and drove in two runs Tuesday, but was involved in a bizarre incident when he lost a fly ball in the fog.
"Just rough conditions," Span said. "Nothing you can do to prepare for that. I don't think I've ever played in a game with that much fog."
Despite winning the series opener, Chicago has dropped four of six while hitting .198.
Anthony Rizzo is providing a rare bright spot, going 14 for 32 (.438) with three homers and six RBIs in the last eight games. He had three hits Thursday and owns a .375 career average versus Washington.
Jason Hammel (6-5, 2.99) will also look to continue his success against the Nationals. The right-hander is 6-0 with a 3.15 ERA in eight career starts, winning the last two with Baltimore while allowing three runs - two earned - with 18 strikeouts in 16 innings.
Hammel, who has forced Span to go 1 for 10, enters this meeting among the NL leaders with a career-best 1.02 WHIP. He was just as effective Sunday, allowing two runs and six hits in seven innings while not getting any run support in a 2-1 loss to Pittsburgh.
Despite the defeat, it was an improvement for Hammel, who had allowed eight runs and 19 hits in 11 innings while going 0-1 over his previous two outings.
"It's coming back," he told the team's website of his slider. "The command of the slider and the heater are coming back, so I feel pretty good about it."
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Convert wma to mp3 using an earlier 'registered' version of winamp (Microsoft threatened nullsoft with legal shit 'cos of winamps ability to write decoded wma files to disc- so this was removed in later versions). Set output to write to disc, and set output format to what you want- like mp3, wav. (EAC can do high quality wav to mp3 compressions if lame codec is used)
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If you live in Europe, what American products do you crave? [Moved from International board]
We are about to visit relatives in the Netherlands and would like to bring some food products for them. But given that most things seem to taste better over there, we're not sure what to bring! What American products do you crave when not in the U.S.? We live in California, so one thing we thought of bringing was avocados. And we know that our relatives like American-style peanut butter. Other than that, we're stumped. Any ideas?
Check before you take fresh fruits or vegetables anywhere; they could well be confiscated. Avocadoes aren't rare in Northern Europe, they seem to come from Israel or southern Europe, depending on the season.
I'm surprised about the peanut butter, because pindakaas is very common in the Netherlands, and doesn't seem very different. (I only eat the peanuts-only kind, which is obviously similar at natural-food shops on either side of the pond, but the type with sugar and hydrogenated oils exists there too, in all supermarkets).
How about some quality organic products - challenging the often-held comment that people in the US (and to some extent here - I live in Montréal so I'm not US American, but North American) eat crap? There are many lovely Californian products - you might even take a bottle of quality Californian wine if they like wine, or olive oil.
Of course from my parts I always am expected to take a tin of maple syrup, but that isn't remotely local for you.
re: lagatta
I moved to Portugal a month ago; I'm blind, makes grocery shopping so much harder since I don't know what exactly is available, & I don't speak Portuguese. My husband, though, also blind at least works for a grocery chain, & ofcourse, speaks the language. I kept asking for things I couldn't get, & have been making more homemade things, & just asked for peanutbutter. Simple, right??? NOT! Now, maybe another grocery here has it, not ours. I'm going to make it home made. Also, asking for pickles seamed too easy. Pickles means pickled veggies here. coliflour, carrots, etc. Still learning.
re: autumnabroad
wow. that would be a matter of game change.
I've been studying xhtml and recently realized the subtleties of the new coding for TTY/TDD interface. I can only imagine. the new coding makes a lot of sense, but still it has to be difficult.
pickled cauliflower and carrots? hey - that's practically the relish for a good muffaletta sandwich!
re: hill food
Are you referring to phone systems for the hearing-impaired? & OMG!!! Muffaletta??? I didn't think of that, my brain is fried from all this. He doesn't like many veggies, which doesn't help, but wonder if I can get away with that; maybe tonight after a grooling session of grocery shopping. Thanks for the ides.
re: autumnabroad
I thought it was more or less the same technology that translated the written word to spoken or onto a braille touch pad.
I clearly still have a lot to learn.
muffaleta - if you can't find a good bread for it in Portugal, you're just shit out of luck. (smirk)
re: hill food
Haven't investigated all the breads, Gill lit some chorizo (sp) over alcohol last night, he says it's not the best, I didn't care for it, but I've made french toast with cream cheese & fresh strawberries which he loves. You're no doubt correct about the technology. I have a Mac with voiceover, so no expensive JAWS software to buy. Do you know about Dragon Speak? Is that along the same lines?
re: autumnabroad
will put it on my list. I fully believe in universal access to all things. (used to study architecture)
so this is going a bit off-topic, but I'm curious what you hear in the translation, are punctuation marks like parentheses or dashes carried over?
I ask to be sure my communication is clear. and I AM still learning a lot.
as a comparison, the old html code for BOLD or ITALIC has changed to comply with the voiceover capability. but now I'm thinking, that is easy compared to some things. does it pick up on superceded code? this place isn't html enabled so it's not an issue here. but I do wonder.
sorry. I didn't want to put you on the spot. one never knows who reads this, but its never a bad idea to be aware of who might. funny as the biggest gripe about misunderstandings on the web are it's a written medium, but I'm guessing for you it's spoken, only it could be Steven Hawking.
on topic - pickled veg on anything sounds good to me.
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re: autumnabroad
Interesting -- I have to go to a Portuguese grocery to buy affordable peanut butter in France, so I would have assumed it would be easy to buy the stuff in Portugal.. Go figure!
re: sunshine842
Well, our store is Tinco Dose, & he says we'd have better luck at Continente. (please excuse incorrect spelling). I'll just try making the peanutbutter, though. BTW, surprised at the lack of adventurous food choices in France.
re: autumnabroad
Adventurous (non-French) food is available, but you have to learn how and where to find it.
there are plenty of French foods that would be considered adventurous to other cultures!
Avocados and American-style peanut butter are easy to find in Europe. For me, I miss having poblano chiles, tomatillos and meyer lemons. Dry masa is available (though expensive) but fresh masa is not. But for someone else it could that what they really really want is a pack of twinkies. One woman I know always brought back a bunch of kraft mac n' cheese. Why not ask them if they can think of anything? If they are foodie types you can also ask if they are interested in any of the cookbooks that have come out recently in english, or kitchen gadgets, which tend to be cheaper in the US.
How about some good quality bacon? I find bacon to be rather expensive in Germany -- not sure what it's like in the Netherlands, though.
re: Sam Fujisaka
While the Mexican foods you mention might be an option, I'd be rather suprised if the most of the Asian ingredients weren't readily available in the many Asian grocery stores in the Netherlands. And raisins? You're kidding, right? '-)
re: linguafood
Isn't there something special about California raisins? They sing and dance, right? Seriously, if you find some high quality local product, even if it's something "ordinary" like dried fruits and nuts (pistachios!), it will be appreciated. And like Behemoth, I would also suggest just asking them. You might learn something surprising/disturbing about these relatives, and you won't end up bringing them a suitcase full of tamale-making ingredients that they have no idea what to do with.
I always ask for candy corn. And nobody ever brings me any.
re: DeppityDawg
Ha, candy corn is actually a good call. I always send my husband the most tacky Hallowe'en and Valentine's day candy I can find if I am in the US during that time of year. It doesn't help our culinary reputation any, but I think his colleagues are always really amused.
re: DeppityDawg
haha! when I lived in germany I had a friend bring me mellowcreme pumpkins...I also missed ranch dressing(meh, i was a college student). For the most part though, now that I'm back in the USA I miss stuff I ate in Germany more than I ever missed stuff from home. Jar sundried tomato pesto...next time I go back I'm bringing a suitcase full home! I also miss how cheap my grocery bill used to seem...even with the conversion to euros.
re: linguafood
Indonesian items are readily available. Any Japanese goods seem really expensive, albeit available. Raisins are available, but California raisins are better and much less expensive.
re: Sam Fujisaka
Our late friend Sam was right. Japanese goods, while available, are luxuries. Indonesian and Chinese foods (probably Sino-Indonesian in many cases) are very common, even in supermarkets. Even small supermarkets have a shelf of them.
I want to point out a slight word of warning for this reason. The most common soya sauce in the Netherlands is sweet Indonesian sauce. You can buy Japanese and Chinese types as well, but check the label first.
re: lagatta
Conversely, if you want Dutch products in the USA, look at the Indonesian section of an Asian grocery. That especially applies to Dutch chocolate items.
Definitely ask them, because it depends on country/region and the person.
I crave black beans. I can't find them at all in my region in France. My family has also sent and/or brought me pancake mix, tomatillos (canned), Mexican spices, Japanese rice, miso, nori, certain soup mixes and cans/boxes of chicken stock (hard to find in France, surprisingly).
re: mcdon
I had to laugh about the chicken stock. We have friends who live in Paris, and when we visit we like to cook dinner for them one night. I was amazed that I could not get chicken stock, and had to use bouillon cubes. I also could not find fresh sage. Luckily I did find some packaged from Provence, which were whole leaves and not completely dry, but still not like fresh which I can get in supermarkets in the U.S. We like to think the French are so sophisticated when it comes to food, but they are really not all that adventurous with things that are not traditionally used in French cooking.
re: rrems
And yet chicken stock and sage are very much used in French cooking. Perhaps "real" cooks make their own - I do, but then I mostly work at home, and stock is something you can have going in the kitchen while writing on the computer at the other end of the apartment or house. (Though yes, years ago I DID have a disaster when working to a tight deadline, so I won't make it then). It seems to me that I've seen the packaged stock - such as Knorr - in French supermarkets.
But indeed, not all French people are gourmet cooks by any means.
re: lagatta
I don't know if it is the case in France, but in Germany I was initially thrown off by the format. Ready-made stock comes in glass jars. Another good tip (at least in Germany), is that you can often buy stock at a butcher shop.
re: mcdon
McDon -- do a search and see if you can find a Portuguese grocery. I realize that here in the Paris region it's easier, but there's a Portuguese grocery near me that carries all kinds of foods that folks accustomed to Latin/Caribbean influences might miss. An African grocery might have a good choice, as well.
Try some of the online groceries, too...you might be able to get some shipped....and if that still doesn't work, maybe we can work out a way I can put a kilo or two in La Poste for you.
re: alkapal
makes sense. brits probably have dutched cocoa.
I really used to miss crunchy cheetos. And Reese's pb cups. And Kraft dinner.
All foods I try to avoid nowadays. ah, childhood -- sigh
re: linguafood
I've lived in Europe for the past 5 years (UK, France, Czech Rep) and i suggest you bring items that have a long shelf life and can be enjoyed well after you've visited and items that pack easily. Finally, bring a good recipe for ranch and/or blue cheese dressings. A couple tips and sure fire expat needs are:
-Frank's Red Hot and or other hot sauces
-Reese's PB cups
-Steal cut oats
-Rye Whisky
-Marshmallow and graham crackers
-Kids here love the plethora of American fruit snacks Fruit Roll ups, gushers etc. take them out of the box and they pack well.
-A can of Pabst so they realize how good the beer they're drinking really is.
re: braniganlee
I'm very surprised that you were unable to find cilantro (not native to the Americas, by the way) in Arab or Vietnamese/Chinese shops in large French cities, or in South Asian or East Asian shops in the UK. I have certainly bought it in Paris, and also in Amsterdam.
I don't get the oats thing, with respect to the UK. Of course they have steel-cut oats.
re: lagatta
some people dont realize cilantro and coriander are the same thing
re: kpaxonite
they are the same plant, except cilantro is the leaf and coriander is the seed and have somewhat different flavors and uses.
re: hill food
but you can find fresh cilantro in the produce section of most groceries...but it's labeled Coriandre.
re: sunshine842
good to know, maybe there's a different name for the seed there? or is it maybe not used? (doubtful) when I was living in Europe I was surrounded by astoundingly unadventurous eaters.
re: hill food
Nope, the jar in my spice cupboard says Coriandre (grains moulu -- ground seeds), too. (had to go look!)
You just have to know the difference, I guess...French recipes call for a stem of coriandre, or a cuillere a cafe (a teaspoon) of coriandre...which I guess logically dictates which one you use.
re: sunshine842
that would make sense, stem or leaf versus seed or ground.
re: braniganlee
q control on reese's has gone downhill. check ppl for allergies before sending...
re: Chowrin
Just wanted to agree with this. I finally got some cany bars last night, Mars bars, tasted pretty good since it's been awhile, but Reece's PB Cups have been tasting pretty bad for years now, center is really powdery & just nasty.
Have no idea about Europe, but whenever I go to Korea, I must bring Oh Boy Oberto Beef Jerky, JIF peanut butter, and American candy (i.e., snickers, sweettarts, skittles, sour patch kids, etc.) to my friends relatives (per their request)...
re: Anna323
I was also going to say chocolate chips--an American in our company who lives in Germany asks for them whenever anyone here is going over.
re: Anna323
I second the marshmallows!
re: bropaul
Strangely, there were bags of marshmallows in the market in Cairo.
re: roxlet
In Egypt/the Middle East - they are big on marshmallows - but they do not taste the same at all. Different kind of gelatin used, different texture. American marshmallows are still definitely a treat when you're in the Middle East.
re: Chinon00
That's been my experience in the 6 or so countries I've visited. I was most surprised the first time I was in Ireland. I recently watched Bobby Flay's Saint Patrick's Day special where he went on and on about how good the beef is in Ireland because the grasses are so lush. That's what you'd think, right? But I've not found it to be the case. He said they import a lot of their steak. WTF? I also thought the steak quality was poor in Italy and France last summer. I came home CRAVING red meat.
re: southernitalian
A friend of mine from Italy told me that his father ate steak when he came to the US everyday.
re: Chinon00
Millions and millions of Italians moved to Argentina precisely to eat steak everyday. Italy has very little grazing land; that is why cattle are slaughtered as grain veal, not beef.
re: lagatta
It never would have occurred to me, but that makes perfect sense. I always thought veal and Italian food was a preference rather than a practicality.
Whenever I go back home to the Netherlands, my family always ask me to bring Hot Sauce (especially Tabasco Chipotle & louisiana Hot Sauce) Babrbecue Sauce (Bulls Eye) dried Chipotles (yes, very popular in my family and they don't seem to have it in Holland) Peanutbutter cups (they have snickers, skittles, milky way, etc in Holland, and sorry to say, but the chocolate candybars are way better there.....) and Kashi Bars.
Some other things I can think of... : Chocolate covered Pretzels, Wasabi Soy Almonds, Salsa & Queso dips, anything mexican or barbecue items.... Chips Ahoy or maybe even Cheerios....
I would ask them!
Be careful with any kind of produce or meats though, I believe you're not supposed to bring them in the country
re: chefschickie
The novelty of American food was for me at least - the "junkier" stuff:
Reese's Peanut butter cups
Kraft Dinner
chocolate chips (the ones that usually have a delish choc chip cookie recipe on the pack)
Pop Tarts (I DREAMED of these as a child - after being served them for *breakfast* at an American friend's house)
Anything with "fake cherry flavour" - ie fruit rollups, jolly ranchers, tootsie roll pops - same goes for "fake grape"
In Norway we don't get blue m&Ms (illegal colouring), so I thought that was quite novel.
Chips ahoy equivalents are available in Europe, same with Cheerios, but Oreos aren't everywhere as far as I know...
And Fruit snacks! The ones that are actually candy masquerading as "fruit" - SOOO good!
Haha, that's all my guilty pleasures in one go...
re: hangrygirl
hangrygirl, awesome post. i'm including all of your suggestions in my next care package to my sister. i don't even think she likes pop tarts or kraft dinners, but maybe she can sell them to all the expat kids in her apt building for a profit.
As a few posters have said already, chocolate chips are a valued commodity in many parts of Europe. My sister lives in Switzerland, homeland of great chocolate, but it's still hard to find it in chip form.
In care packages to her, I usually include c chips, as well as peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, mint chocolate chips, and white chocolate chips. (Ghiradelli makes good versions of most of these.) I also include vanilla extract because vanilla is more often found as beans than as a liquid -- at least in Switzerland -- and sometimes you just want the convenience of processed shiznit. Cheddar cheese is rare in many parts, though similar cheeses exist. Oh -- and very important for anyone who likes to junk out: American style potato chips, esp. in BBQ, sour cream & onion, and "cheddar" flavors.
I have a sister that lives in the netherlands and she always asks for Little Debbies for her and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for her Dutch husband. He loves them and I try to take enough of the individual snack packs so he can pack one with his lunch for a couple of months at least. He actually tries to ration them so they last as long as possible. Another one that may sound a bit odd is Girl Scout Cookies. Another one of my sister's cravings.
When I lived abroad I most wanted people to bring me:
chocolate chips
maple syrup and pancake mix
stuffing mix for Thanksgiving turkey
any bag of Fritos, Chitos, American potato chips etc.
Even though I consider myself a "gourmet" cook, I am totally an American food junky for the above items once in a great while. It reminded me of home.
Soda is always a good one, because certain sodas are just not available outside america. Rootbeer, sioux city etc etc.
And also, a jar of marshmallow fluff. Can't go wrong. I would hesitate to bring chocolate though. American chocolate is among the worst I've tasted (bar "cooking chocolate" bleagh, so waxy). One exception is hersheys cookie and cream.
re: Fromageball
I'm convinced that there's a special atmosphere at Christmas markets -- you keep buying stuff because it all looks so wonderful, regardless of the price...then you get home and realize how much you spent for THAT.
My friend in the UAE always wants the 100 calorie bags of microwave kettle corn and popcorn. Go figure.
re: cresyd
good point on the canned pumpkin. I've lived since 1980 in Italy and for the past 10 years or so it's been easy to find chocolate chips, cheerios and other things. Canned pumpkin is impossible to find, as is cranberry sauce, stuffing mix and (though a non-food item) ...Bounce sheets for the dryer. I always have to bring back numerous boxes for my friends with dryers. Oh and ziplock bags!!
re: alidrum
In Jerusalem, most likely thanks to their large American population - we were able to track down canned pumpkin eventually...and we probably tested exactly how long canned pumpkin can last. However cranberries, cranberry sauce - we never were able to find that.
That being said, if you're going to visit in the spring - bringing over Thanksgiving staples might be an odd choice.
I always take PAM- my mom loves it and can't get it in Poland. Also good California olive oil, wine, See's candies. Once I even brought a huge Honeybaked ham for Xmas:-))))
on a tangential note, the ex-pat community around Madrid in the late 80's circulated cheat sheets of where one might find these sorts of things, collaboratively developed over years of hunting. it came to several pages of sources all over the metro area. why someone would want to drive 40+ minutes for Spam is anyone's guess.
but I guess homeland and childhood cravings get strong.
re: hill food
When I lived in Douala Cameroon (West Africa) in the '70s, I was in a network of Americans and Brits that would telephone each other when they found a food from home in a shop (i.e. "The chinese store has Campbell's Chicken Noodle!!) We would drive long distances over rut-filled roads to pick up a case (if we were lucky) or even a few cans. I once drove four hours to an experimental dairy farm and waited two hours for cows to be milked in order to purchase 2 litres of fresh milk. Our only other resourse was UTP milk which in those days tasted a lot worse than Parmalat, or canned evaporated.
re: lattelover
There is no Chef Boyardee ravioli here in Colombia; and I wouldn't drive out of Cali for a can or two. That's why its so good when I work in DC and have a suite w/ kitchen. Now let me say, "You're kidding" as to Campbell's Chicken Noodle!
re: Sam Fujisaka
I agree with you about the Chicken Noodle, Sam. It was just an example. However, be it Campbells or Chef Boyardee, these things are coveted perhaps less for the taste than for the good memories they trigger.
re: lattelover
I have childhood memories of Campbell's chicken noodle soup and Chef Boyardee embalmed raviolis too. But I always regarded both as a form of child abuse. My parents only fed it to the kids when they were going out for the evening. They wouldn't touch it themselves.
When I visited friends in Italy they begged me to fill my suitcases with, of all things, lime jello and Lawry's seasoned salt.
They're not normal. *G*
When I returned home I brought 5 jars of Nutella. The American version just doesn't taste the same!
My German friends always request the Lime-flavored Tortilla Chips. It gets to be a bit bulky, but it's worth it to see the joy on their faces. Kettle corn popcorn is always a hit, too.
If you live in California, why not take a box of See's candy? In my experience you can get anything in Europe you can get here, grocery-wise, but you can't get See's. (I can't even get it in Chicago.)
You can't really bring many of these but when I travel abroad I mostly crave:
Many American craft beers
An excellent steak
A great burger
Corn Chowder
Jewish Deli
American breakfast: eggs, sausage, waffles, pancakes, grits, hashbrowns . . .
good fried chicken and a plate of buttermilk biscuits
My sister lives in Spain and when she comes home she goes crazy with the cheesecake. She's made it in Spain so she must be able to find the ingredients, but she had to call home to get a recipe. When she comes home, though, she hits a good cheesecake shop and buys several to box up and take back.
Maybe other countries in Europe have some variation of this, though.
re: rweater
Italy has cheesecake, but it is made with ricotta. Much better for you and personally I prefer it - I find the American type too heavy and sweet.
Isn't the US type of cheesecake originally of German origin?
Jell-O.... not avalible... american kraft cheese not avalible either... only in macdonalds but no markets... these are random items i noticed while i was away in italy for 3 mouths
Some of the foods I miss most since moving to Norway is, Dukes mayo, French's mustard, Franks red hot and Mount Olive DILL Pickles Or any good sour, dill pickle. I use these things in alot of salads. Except the Franks, thats good on just about anything.... I have been here more than 2 years and still havent found a good DILL Pickle to use, everything i have tried is sweet. HMMMMM Maybe Mc Donalds will sell me some LOL
re: birdie_1976
That's funny. Coming from Germany, I find the pickles in the US to be overwhelmingly sweet and dilly. I find it impossible to find pickles that are savory, slightly sour.... they're all sugary and overkill on the dill.
re: birdie_1976
Do they even have hot sauce in Norway? Spicy food connoisseurs frequently complain about the lack of hot sauce and chili peppers in Northern Europe.
re: aynrandgirl
Does the Netherlands count as Northern Europe? Indonesian chow is big there.
re: birdie_1976
I can tell from the list of foods you miss that you are from the southern United States. The Duke's mayo and Mt. Olive pickles gives you away!
re: linguafood
well the fruit and veggies r fresh but they r shipped fron around the world most of the time.. im from sweden so most prodouct come from warmer countries, like the tomatos r from spain, and all they taste like is water.. during the summer its ok but during the winter its to cold to grow anything here
re: L987
That is also true in Montréal and can't imagine it is much different in nearby parts of the US. We do have wonderful vegetables in the summer and early autumn.
I was sad about the lack of taste of many vegetables in the Netherlands, as so many are greenhouse-grown. I did find good local vegetables at an organic market in Amsterdam though.
Been in Spain 2 years. If I cant find it I make it: brownies, choc chunk cookies, pancakes, bagels, decent pizza, buttermilk, cinnamon rolls, clam chowder, fried chicken, decent bread, mac n cheese, mex food. Things available here in Spain(Barcelona): fresh milk, PB, cilantro, cheddar cheese, nacho cheese dip, tortillas, maple syrup, soy sauce, marshmallows, avacados, tabasco, jalepenos, mex salsa, bbq sauce, black beans, after reading this thread I feel lucky to have so many things readily available!
Things I can't find: sour cream(but I make crem fresch and it is actually better), pepperoni, italian sausage, good steak, chiles, graham crackers, I especially crave the pepperoni, if anyone knows where I can get some please let me know!!!
Seems like most of EU is so stubborn and traditional when it comes to food, in general they don't stray from their usual ingredients at all. Here its always olive oil, fish, potatoes, and garlic. God forbid a little spice, they just can't handle the slightest bit, seriously things I didnt even had a hint of spice yet they would complain.
Good things they have and that I will miss when I leave: patatas bravas, pan con tomate(catalunya), ali oli, cheap good olive oil, tortilla espanola, churros con chocolate, spanish hot chocolate, Fanta (its better here than in the States), and croquettes.
re: hotrippr
No decent bread in Spain? That does surprise me.
re: hotrippr
"Things I can't find: sour cream(but I make crem fresch and it is actually better), pepperoni, italian sausage, good steak, chiles, graham crackers, I especially crave the pepperoni, if anyone knows where I can get some please let me know!!!"
Isn't Spanish chorizo as good or better than pepperoni? I go out of my way to find a good chorizo (not the fresh Mexican kind) in the USA.
Italian sausage - how about fresh ground pork seasoned with fennel seed?
chiles - what kind? I've developed a liking for several Spanish styles, including the mild piquillo, the long green pickeled ones, and pipmenton. Nora is supposed to interchangeable with ancho. So that leaves fresh green ones like jalepeno, which aren't my favorite. I've read about,m but never tried, alepo chiles.
Graham crackers - how about digestive biscuits instead?
re: hotrippr
check the web, in the 80's in Madrid all the US ex-pats had a cheat sheet/newsletter of where to source all sorts of things American and through that network you could usually find someone who could score what you were looking for at the PX on the nearest base (name of the one outside Madrid escapes me, we were in private industry)
I can't imagine there isn't some listserv out there in this day and age.
re: hotrippr
yeah tortilla d patata y espinaca with ali oli....
re: amyzan
baking powder is a relatively recent innovation - 2nd half of the 1800s, and for various reasons became more popular in the USA than Europe. I suspect that on the American frontier and small towns, home baking was more common, were as in most Italian towns you could get all the bread and cakes you wanted from the village baker. Also in the USA, softer wheat and corn did not make as good yeast bread, but did fine with baking soda and powder (in cornbread, biscuits and cakes).
Some shops in the USA do sell European baking powder in little envelopes. Vanilla flavored sugar comes in similar packets.
I have an Italian cookbook (published in the UK) that has a lot of recipes using yeast, but only a couple using baking powder.
re: paulj
Yeah, the little packets is what I eventually turned up. I was making biscuits for a potluck, and had to buy several packets, and was surprised how expensive it was relative to the US. The biscuits were a big hit at a party with a bunch of Italian students who'd been studying Appalachia at La Sapienza. They thought the biscuits were quite novel, and unlike anything they'd had before. I turned up buttermilk at a dairy cooperative, where it was the real stuff, a byproduct of butter making, which is part of why the biscuits turned out so well, no doubt. Here I can only get the cultured kind.
re: Chowrin
You'll have to elaborate. I don't see how baking powder can be 'native to' a place.
Be very careful about fresh fruits and vegetables, or any meat products - these are often banned from import. You certainly aren't allowed to take them into the US from abroad. Plus, after 24 hours or so in transit, they don't necessarily arrive in good condition.
Mexican ingredients are a good bet - the variety of dried chilis called for in Mexican cooking is hard to find abroad, for one thing. Or take a bottle of good tequila. Dried beans might be an option as well.
Dried cranberries might be good- I managed to make a fantastic cranberry sauce from dried berries last Christmas that was actually better than that made from fresh.
Some California things like olives, or wine, are also produced in Europe (French wine, Spanish olives) so what you bring might be a bit different, but not better quality.
Junk food can be good - I just brought back a stash that included corn nuts, wintergreen life savers and tootsie pops.
Hot Sauce (number one missed item)
Maple Syrup
Black Beans (actually, most Mexican items)
Wild Rice (I'm from the upper Midwest, so it was a nice taste of home when I received it in a care package)
BEER! Don't let anyone in Europe say that the US only makes horrible beer. Yeah, Anheiser-Busch/Coors/macro-brews are awful, but some of the best beers in the world are made here too. Since you're in Cali, there's a lot of really good beer being made in state.
I think things have really changed in the US though as far as food quality goes. I live near Seattle now and the fruit and vegetables in the farmers markets are just as good, if not better than in Europe. If you want to pay for it, you can get some incredible cheese and dairy products that are local too.
re: serendipity3
Beer: actually our German exchange students liked the crappiest G Heileman no-name beer products. which was fine by me 'cause as 18 YO's those were the only stores that would sell to us.
re: hill food
Hill Food, that's funny! I hope you showed your German exchange students a good time. The best parties I ever attended were cheap beer fueled. It's gross, but Natty Ice and Milwaukee's Best (The Beast) still hold a piece of my heart.
re: serendipity3
in 82-83 we were hitting the STL 905 stores (and even following a certain cool clerk around to various postings) but yeah, same brewer as MB or Weideman's and many other individual brands. I guess they had a good time, I was welcome in their houses the following summer.
and yeah maybe audacious underage purchases warrants a thread on the appropriate board.
re: serendipity3
Ok, the thing I will miss, guilty pleasure, Taco Bell. On the upside, making food homemade, made some wonderful Spanish rice last night. Perfect flavor, fingers still burning from removing pepper seeds. ;) Re; beer, I think it's much better here in Portugal than any I had in the U.S. Never liked beer, drink it all the time now, & also, as yet unexplained, no headaches from any drinking here. Not my case in the U.S. Again, usually elected not to drink for that reason, no trouble here.
I had a couchsurfer from Berlin who was in love with some local dill havarati I had and I took her out for her first hot fudge sunday. Slightly off topic, but those were foods I thought would be available everywhere.
When my sister was living in Scotland she had fierce cravings for Old Dutch ketchup potato chips so I took them to her every time I went to visit.
My wife and I lived in Germany from 2010-2012 (we're Californian, and are happily back in the Golden State)—we missed California Mexican food.
We made a point of trying to make tacos at home in Germany as best we could on Sunday evening. We ferried chipotles and masa with us whenever we went home. Tortillas also travel well. (We used this recipe: http://bit.ly/V6sA2s)
Another American friend in Germany always wants Kraft Mac&Cheese. :-)


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Rice-Jarrett ComparisonPosted by on June 29, 2009 – 12:55 pm
On its website, Pro Football Weekly currently has an entry about Panthers WR Dwayne Jarrett, with a title of "Third year could be the charm for Jarrett". In the story, PFW author Dan Parr says Jarrett has been "a major disappointment thus far, as he has made just 16 catches in the two seasons since Carolina drafted him in the second round."
But after including a quote from Panthers RB DeAngelo Williams, who supports Jarrett, Parr goes on to say that Jarrett "has a firm grasp on the No. 3 receiver spot" and that "he may take snaps away from veteran starter Muhsin Muhammad if he shows signs of breaking out in training camp."
So what does this have to do with the Vikings, you ask? Well it's a relatively slow time, so I found it appropriate to show you the link between this story on Jarrett and the Vikings.
When it was the Vikings turn to make their 2nd-round selection during the 2007 NFL draft, both Jarrett and Sidney Rice were available. And WR just happened to be a position the team could easily justify addressing.
Jarrett, the 6-4, 219-pound record-breaking WR from powerhouse Southern California, was a widely-known prospect who surprisingly dropped to the 2nd round. In college, Jarrett was a 2-time All-American who left school as the all-time receptions leader with 216 and the Pac-10's all-time leader in touchdown receptions with 41. He played many of his games on national TV and had the athletic ability and large frame that is so often coveted by pro scouts and fans alike.
The Vikings selected Rice, however, a younger player who was similar in height to Jarrett, but wasn't nearly as big and didn't come with nearly as much fanfare. He played collegiately at South Carolina, of course, and didn't spend as much time on national TV or on SportsCenter highlight reels.
Because so many thought Jarrett should've been the Vikings pick, Rice began his career with A) a Vikings fan base tentative of his potential and B) the reality that he might always be compared to Jarrett.
Neither player has come close to their potential, so the Jarrett-Rice comparison doesn't rank up there with the Ryan Leaf-Peyton Manning or Eli Manning-Phillip Rivers comparisons.
But now that they're each entering their 3rd seasons, this might be an appropriate time to re-engage that comparison. Rice had the better rookie season, hauling in 31 receptions and 4 TDs compared to Jarrett's meager totals of 6 receptions and 0 TDs. And he also fared better last year despite missing several games due to injury.
So Rice, who many thought should've been picked behind Jarrett, has clearly had the better career to this point. And Jarrett, who has drastically underperformed to this point, seems poised to resurrect his football career in Carolina after a disappointing start to his pro career.
It's just 1 more interesting storyline for Vikings fans to follow in the 2009 season.
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I don't usually choose to read romances, but the setting for Jessica Brockmole's debut novel, Letters from Skye, interested me. It is a true "old-fashioned love story," told in alternating chapters through letters written during World War I and World War II.
Promising young archaeologist Verity Grey ventured to the wilds of Scotland for a job interview little knowing that she was leaving behind her secure London flat for encounters with ghostly visions and the threat of madness in Susanna Kearsley's Shadowy Horses.
From where he stood on the hill above the valley, Martin Crawford saw that the leader of the war band was in serious trouble. When a hunting horn sounded from behind, the leader ordered his men to scatter before the onslaught of English soldiers. They were on him in moments, but their numbers broke as they chased the leader's scattered men. In all his sixteen years, Martin had never seen a man fight as this one did, swinging his great sword beside his companions until the last living enemy fled in fear.
In 1972, Richard Adams' classic fantasy novel Watership Down was first published. This exciting adventure follows the travels of a group of rabbits seeking a new home after the destruction of their warren. Evocatively written and imaginatively plotted, this novel excelled in portraying the world we humans perceive as mundane as a place filled with danger and mystery, and also excelled in its depiction of the primitive religion and folklore the rabbits created to explain the natural environment. After I finished reading Watership Down a couple of months ago, I searched for a similar fantasy told from the perspective of animals, but finding a novel of its caliber proved difficult. Many of the other animal-centered fantasy stories I found were either too deliberately whimsical or too childish to live up to Adams' novel. Eventually I found David Clement-Davies' Fire Bringer and decided to give it a try based on the recommendation by Adams on the back cover. Filled with adventure, suspense, and gripping depictions of the natural world, this novel lived up to my lofty expectations.
In the far-off days when the Picts and the Scots were dividing the ancient land of Scotland and fighting amongst themselves to decide who could get hold of the most of it, there came good men from over the seas to settle the land.
--"The Drowned Bells of the Abbey"
Firelight and drumbeat were the original backdrop for these tales, true and added to and some imagined altogether, that are retold in Sorche Nic Leodhas' award-winning book, Thistle and Thyme.
Gemma Hardy's story parallels Jane Eyre's experiences—both have an evil aunt and have to work for their educations at boarding school as charity girls. Both girls are bullied and treated unfairly by family, school staff, and students. Both girls have disappointments with men who have secrets. If you enjoyed Charlotte Bronte's gothic tales or Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca, you will love The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey. Set in the 1950's and 1960's in Scotland and Iceland, the author uses the imagery of birds and flight to underscore Gemma's journey.
To make Dorothy's arrival even more of a horror is the fact that in her haste to leave home, she left the key to the cottage behind. The food had better be all that it was said to be; she has to spend the first night of her holiday with the bickering religious from America. Her first full day is a holy terror. The storm is building, but an opportunity to go to fabled Fingal's Cave cannot be passed up, even with the ever more cantankerous Americans along for the ride. What she wants even less is the next event: one of the group falls from the rocks in the cave and disappears beneath the waves.
It is clearly an accident, an unfortunate happenstance, and everyone is willing to accept it as such. Except for Dorothy. As the island of Iona is isolated by the storm, Dorothy begins asking questions no one wants answered, and finding answers that reveal things that she might not have wanted to know.
Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Mineral B rust, and reseasoning, and ugh.
I'm trying to fix my mangled skillet. I pored over the other threads, but don't see a clear answer to my concern: Is it OK to use a skillet if it still has some residual rust speckles after seasoning?
My well-meaning partner washed my newish, nicely seasoned Mineral B skillet and left it in a puddle of water in the drainer. I set out to clean and reseason. Scrubbing with salt barely dented the rust, so I got out the abrasive sponge and set to it. I worked really fast, scrubbed and dried and rushed the skillet onto a warm burner to dry off and added oil to season — but tiny rust spots appeared almost instantly as I dried it off.
I went ahead with seasoning, and I'll follow up with just salt and oil scrub and another round of seasoning.
But there are still speckles of rust. Is there any harm in using it? I keep hearing these are prone to rust but always salvageable.
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I'd just scrub with steel wool and reseason immediately. Rust spots could cause pitting eventually. Don't put it onto a warm burning to dry off. Wipe it dry, then put it on a HOT burner for a very short time, then oil it. That should prevent rust from forming before you get the chance to apply the oil.
I dont have any Carbon Steel pans but I have a lot of Cast Iron - try washing it with white vinegar and steel wool (clean not soapy) to get rid of rust - then wipe dry, fully dry on burner and re-season.
Hi, blissed:
Let's play "good news or bad news"?
OK, good news: You're fine cooking in it. Your OP is unclear whether the spots are inside or outside, but either way, clean, reseason and carry on.
Now the bad news. Bare, polished steel can pit even after a short rusting experience such as yours. So be prepared to accept that your MB has a ding or two in its windshield--it happens to the best of us.
Theoretically, if you lived in the ARR (Anal Retentive Republic) you could have the pan bead-blasted and polished without losing much thickness, but likely you or your partner would slip up eventually again anyway.
IMO these pans are meant to show their dings and warts. The grodier they look/are, the better.
Again, my advice: kiss your partner and carry on.
<Is it OK to use a skillet if it still has some residual rust speckles after seasoning?>
It is ok, but you should remove the light rust with a paper towel or "salt and oil".
<but tiny rust spots appeared almost instantly as I dried it off.>
I see. This is where the "salt and oil" method comes in. It is a very mild method, and the oil prevents the cookware from rusting up.
<But there are still speckles of rust. Is there any harm in using it?>
No harm. No harm to you for sure.
Thanks, everyone. I don't mind it looking funky — I'm a firm believer that useful stuff looks used. Just worried about the finish. I haven't tried cooking yet, but to be honest the pan feels better than it did the first time I seasoned it.
We did kiss and make up. I'll continue to be grateful he washes my dishes, and he will never, ever wash a pan again. Everyone's happy!
I don't know if this would work, but I would try it if it were me: if it is bad, you need to take it back to original state. Which to me means taking off the layers/patina with Bar Keepers Friend. Then start over from new with seasoning. I'm really not sure about this and have not tried it on pans. But I did just take a patina off a knife (I wanted to try a new one) this way and it worked well. Everything I know about rust is that it spreads if not removed. What I'm not sure is if BKF is a good way to do that for this pan (and I own three DB steel pans). (the gist here is sim to Sirrith, below, just with a different tactic)
re: danlind3
I did use Barkeeper's Friend after the unimpressive salt scrub — looked terrific until I dried it, and it immediately bloomed with rust.
I've used the pan a few times since, and it's coming along nicely. And the coloring variations that occur with normal use are masking the ugliness from the rust remnants. I'm going to assume that as long as rust isn't coming *off* the pan, and it's got a nice, smooth, on-it's-way-to-nonstick surface, everything will be OK.
re: blissed
Any bare iron is gong to rust when exposed to the air...hence your pan rusting as soon as the water dries.
Try cleaning again, and while still wet add some oil and wiping it around. You should not see rust at that point.
Considering the short duration of the rust, I dare say it is superficial and cosmetic only.
As others have mentioned, wash it , scrub it, etc. to remove the visible rust, dry it with a handy towel and place it on a HOT burner for a few minutes and then take a paper towel with some oil in a pair of kitchen tongs and wipe the affected area. I doubt you will notice and difference in your pan after you cook in it once or twice since the seasoning will have sealed up any cosmetic damage that may have occurred. Considering the short timeframe involved, I seriously doubt any rust pits are present but, minor ones will be 'consumed' in the seasoning process. Heck, some people even argue that rough cast iron is better than smooth since the seasoning is thicker and smoother making a better non-stick cooking surface.


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for Everyoneby A verified travelerfrom UK
Another great Four Seasons hotelPosted Sep 23, 2014
Pros: The staff, professional yet friendly. Not too 'stuffy' like in some comparable hotels.
Cons: The lounge area of our suite was rather compact.
Location: There are various shopping areas within a ten minute walk of the hotel. Theaters are close by as are some great restaurants.
The hotel was great, as expected of the Four Seasons brand. The staff we dealt with were very professional and friendly. The bar was comfortable and service prompt. I really couldn't fault anything about our stay. It's a pleasant walk to nearby shopping areas, restaurants and theaters.
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Brought granddaughter to Boston for short visit prior to beginning of school year. It was a perfect place to stay. Location, food, view, & staff were all great. Not sure how their hamburger was voted # 1 (or in what year) in Boston but was good. Would recommend it for sure. Linda
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Fabulous stayPosted Jul 29, 2014
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for Everyoneby A verified travelerfrom Pittsburgh PA
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Concierge services were extremely helpful and made our visit more enjoyable. Dining service was also outstanding.
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Thank you for your wonderful comments. We've shared your review with our Concierge and Food and Beverage teams and are thrilled that you had a memorable visit to our Back Bay hotel...and for all the right reasons! We hope to welcome you back soon. -Awet Sium, Hotel Manager
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ConvenientPosted Jul 2, 2014
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Good location of my health and wellness check up. Accessible for shopping and dining. Public park is a plus.
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A hotel at Boston's gorgeous Public GardensPosted Jun 30, 2014
Pros: A for location. A for service. Spacious, comfortable room with all of the amenities and a superb view of the Public Gardens. Everyone was helpful
Cons: Room service for breakfast was overpriced, undercooked, a la carte. Also, the barrista needs lessons on making an excellent cappuccino or latte!
Location: Amazing location. Walk to upscale and casual bistros, every kind of shopping, and so many neighborhoods. Easy access to the metro.
The staff was superb, friendly, competent and very friendly. We were happy with the service, as well as the convenient location with superb views of Boston Commons and the Public Gardens. Safe neighborhood, walkable to so many attractions, shops and restaurants, and easy train access. We would definitely come back and visit again soon!
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All the staff there were very welcoming, would definitely stay here again if i were to visit Boston again. Nicely located near the Boston Common. :)
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This was my wife's and my second stay at the Four Seasons, and this time was even better than the first. Great hotel, attentive, professional staff, beautiful room, terrific location. Hard to do better than the Four Seasons in Boston.
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Exceptional hotelPosted May 27, 2014
My son and I went to Boston to see the historical sights. The hotel is well located at a main park in town, walking distance to many sights. The rooms are roomy and very nice. My son loved the pool and hot tub up on the top floor, as did I. It was used by families and adults alike. They have a great gym. Perhaps best of all is that the staff seemed genuinely friendly and interested in making our stay excellent. Not overbearing or cloying, just there when we needed them and happy to help.
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Everything on the doorstep of this hotel. Couldn't fault anything. Fabulous atmosphere in the bar in the evening & the bar food was excellent. Consierge were extremely helpful in recommending restaurants & making reservations. Overall a fantastic hotel.