<p>San Francisco Appetites and Afterthoughts is Ernie Beyl s second book published by Grizzly Peak Press. His rst, Sketches from a North Beach Journal, traced the city s history with pro les of larger-than-life characters who have added so much panache and excitement to the old neighborhood. San Francisco Appetites and Afterthoughts is an opinionated book by an opinionated guy. It hits the reader right between the ears. Open this book to any page and it hooks you: Levi Strauss and the copper rivets on his jeans and why they were removed from the crotch, Agnes von Kurowsky s Dear John letter to Ernest Hemingway relates to Ernie s Dear John letter after taking his girl- friend to the top of the Mark before he shipped out with the Marine Corps, The Haphazard Gourmet who gives Ernie his recipe for cassoulet because he knows a seduction depends on it. The book feature s Ernie s passions his appetites for fascinating characters he s known over the years in San Francisco from poets to bartenders, from saloons to jazz. It s the author s life in the provocative city by the Golden Gate.</p>

San Francisco Appetites And Afterthoughts

Ernie Beyl

Grizzly Peak Press

<p>Ernest Beyl, author of Stops along the Royal Road, is an inveterate reader of travel books, but no armchair traveler or couch potato. In Stops along the Royal Road he pays tribute to writers who have given him an uncontrollable itch to move about the globe. ese include Richard Halliburton who wrote e Royal Road to Romance that Beyl long ago decided to emulate. In this book his improbable adventures range around the Orient, Southeast Asia, Australasia, South America, Europe, and, of course, the United States. Some chapters are dramatic, personal ep- isodes: visiting Shanghai before it fell to the Chinese communists, photographing Ja- pan s Emperor Hirohito, climbing an Andes peak overlooking the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, watching as famous matador Anto- nio Ordonez is gored in the bullring. Others are comic adventures: partying with Ernest Hemingway and Gary Coo- per at Sun Valley, drinking tequila shot- for-shot with Elizabeth Taylor and Rich- ard Burton in Puerto Vallarta, attending a swank party at the colonial Hong Kong governor s residence with his date dressed fashionably as a gorilla. Here then is our wide-eyed author fol- lowing the footsteps of his idols. Reading about his adventures will surely cause that uncontrollable itch to travel an urge to take o by train, plane, or on foot, the way he does.</p>

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San Francisco Appetites And Afterthoughts

Stops Along the Royal Road