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                      See LBN "Best of 2014" Below

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

Life Bites News

Letter From The Publisher

Dear Life Bites News Readers,

We hope you continue to enjoy your visits to great hotels, restaurants, and travel destinations that appear in our monthly online magazine. Our profile this month is on Rosewood Inn at the Anasazi in Santa Fe, the ultimate winter get-a-way. See Health Minded for story on Chef Bill Bracken and the new food truck charity organization he is creating to feed the hungry in Orange County, California. Entertainment news includes updates on the upcoming Santa Barbara International Film Festival Jan 23 - Feb 2, and the Kirk Douglas Award presented to Actress Jessica Lange in Santa Barbara. Celebrating New Years at the Granada Theatre 2015. The stars will be out at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Visit www.sbiff.org for award and schedule information. See LBN "Best of 2014" list below.

January 10th Golden Globes celebrity suite events and winners news will be interesting, and we have some great features on travel, new food items, health news in health minded, along with Chef Bill Bracken feature in Health Minded, and chef/restaurant updates with recipes. Look for news on the 2015 TasteTV Awards in Los Angeles to be held at the Egyptian Theatre on January 15 at 6:00. Martha Stewart will be inducted into their Hall of Fame. For tickets go to TasteTV.com. Golden Globe at home dinner recipes to enjoy, and find great reads in BookBites section. A bevy of cultural updates, and travel news on winter destination trips being offered in travel section. See our news from the LA Times Travel Show in upcoming LBN issues.  My Ciao Bella Chili recipe to enjoy during football extravaganza parties is in culinary coup. Mangia Bene!

Please join me in praying for our troops fighting in foreign lands, and for all our men and women who serve our great country. Prayer works . . . pray for world peace, and pray especially for peace within the cities in the U.S. Pray for cities and people who have been subjected to angry and violent marchers protesting, rioting and destroying property to show their power against the government and legal decisions made supporting the police in 2014.

January 1 is the birthday anniversary of my late mother Rosaleen Joyce and January 19 birthday of my dear late cousin Joyce Stein Justin - I miss them so much, and will be thinking of them often during this month.

Cordially,