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Eric W. Peterson

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Eric Peterson’s debut novel, Life as a Sandwich, was a finalist in the San Diego Book Awards. His second novel, The Dining Car, won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Popular Fiction, the San Diego Book Award Gold Medal for Best Published Contemporary Fiction, and the Readers’ Favorite Book Award Silver Medal for Literary Fiction. Publishers Weekly’s BookLife named The Dining Car a “Book to Watch.” Sunshine Chief is his third novel.

A third-generation Californian, Peterson attended the University of California at San Diego. He completed his Communication degree at Stanford, majoring in journalism. He lives in Southern California with his wife, Teresa..

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Fine Dining in the iPhone Generation

It’s an insidious practice: upscale restaurants are increasingly serving small plates in lieu of properly portioned entrées.

If the trend continues, a generation of diners will be permanently saddled with the palates of dilettantes and the appetites of Lilliputians. Fine dining in the traditional sense will go the way of the Princess rotary-dial phone.

I confess to being a dinosaur: When setting ou Read more of this blog post »
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Published on July 07, 2017 11:40 Tags: fine-dining, food, restaurants, trains, wine
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