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To: epicure who wrote (4945)	2/8/2005 5:10:13 PM
From: redfish	Respond to of 51730

"Triggerfish Twist" was especially fun for me because I live in the setting. The Palio Brothers restaurant he mentions recently closed down because the land was too valuable to keep running it. It was pure home-cooking at a reasonable price, but popular with the enormously wealthy as well as blue collar guys, so you never knew who you would run into there. I'm hoping he does a book set where we both grew up, Palm Beach County in the late 70's. My favorite Palm Beach story from the time: Palm Beach used to have a law forbidding anyone from jogging or running north-to-south (or vice versa), but allowing running east-to-west. Given that the island is less than 1/2 mile broad east-to-west on average, this gave the police license to arrest all joggers if they so chose. One day a black man is running in Palm Beach, and he's running north-to-south. Six patrol cars converge on him, the officers get out with guns drawn and make the runner drop to his belly on the pavement. They frisk him, arrest him and drag him off to jail. Only problem was the runner was a member of the U.S. Olympic team, in training for the upcoming games. Publicity ensues, and they have to repeal the jogging law.