It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time  My Adventures in Life
and Food  by Moira Hodgson  It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the
Time  Hardcover, 334 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $24.95
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Hodgson  Book Summary  An influential food writer and restaurant
critic describes her lifelong love affair with food in an
entertaining memoir of her culinary adventures around the world,
bringing together her love of food with the diverse people and
places in her life. 30,000 first printing.  Read an excerpt of
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Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time  THE WAITER STOOD OVER ME,
pen at the ready. "Signorina?"   I was twelve, sitting with my
family in the dining room of Lloyd Triestino's MV Victoria as we
sailed through the Strait of Malacca, en route from Singapore to
Genoa. Once again