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Author: Melinda Blanchard, Robert BlanchardPublisher: Random House Inc
Edition Description: ReprintISBN-10: 060980748X
Subject: Biography & AutobiographyISBN-13: 9780609807484
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Language: EnglishPublication Year: 2001
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In this memoir, a married couple relates their experience of leaving their food company in Vermont to open a restaurant on Anguilla, an island of the British West Indies. Their story reveals the obstacles they faced, such as locating popular American ingredients and dealing with a large population of goats that crowded the streets. At times they were tempted to return to the States, but they decided to stay and eventually assimilated into Caribbean culture.

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Length:296 pages
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This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It's about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It's a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs, and indelible portraits of people who live and work on a sliver of beauty set in the Caribbean Sea. It's about the maddening, exhausting, outlandish complications of trying to live the simple life -- and the joy that comes when you somehow pull it off.

The story begins when Bob and Melinda Blanchard sell their successful Vermont food business and decide, perhaps impulsively, to get away from it all. Why not open a beach bar and grill on Anguilla, their favorite Caribbean island? One thing leads to another and the little grill turns into an enchanting restaurant that quickly draws four-star reviews and a celebrity-studded clientele eager for Melinda's delectable cooking. Amid the frenetic pace of the Christmas "high season," the Blanchards and their kitchen staff -- Clinton and Ozzie, the dancing sous-chefs; Shabby, the master lobster-wrangler; Bug, the dish-washing comedian -- come together like a crack drill team. And even in the midst of hilarious pandemonium, there are moments of bliss.

As the Blanchards learn to adapt to island time, they become ever more deeply attached to the quirky rhythms and customs of their new home. Until disaster strikes: Hurricane Luis, a category-4 storm with two-hundred-mile-an-hour gusts, devastates Anguilla. Bob and Melinda survey the wreckage of their beloved restaurant and wonder whether leaving Anguilla, with its innumerable challenges, would be any easier than walking out on each other. Affectionate, seductive, and very funny, A Trip to the Beach is a love letter to a place that becomes both home and escape.





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"[T]his bland tale lacks an original and appealing hook."
Publishers Weekly  (09/04/2000)


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A Trip to the Beach
ISBN: 9780609807484
Author: Blanchard, Melinda/ Blanchard, Robert
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: 11/1/2001
Pages: 296
Binding: PAPERBACK
Weight: 0.6500 lbs.
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The authors describe how they abandoned the headaches of running a successful Vermont-based gourmet food business to open up a restaurant on the Caribbean island of Anguilla and the challenges, joys, setbacks, and unexpected surprises they faced. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
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