The Pack-It-All-In Mentality
populated by celebrity chefs who never seemed to stop opening cool new restaurants. Beth loved the gourmet kitchen they had designed and built together. It looked like a Food Network studio, and that’s just what she had in mind. The fact that the kitchen redo had cost about a quarter of what they had paid for the house didn’t seem to faze David and Beth. Beth was occasionally guilty that she didn’t use the kitchen as much as she thought she would because they so frequently went out to eat. Maybe the wine cellar was a bit over the top, but it seemed to go with the kitchen, and they couldn’t resist. While reading Bon Appétit magazine, Beth discovered the culinary vacation. Sure, they were financially strapped, with the loan for the kitchen and all the implements they had charged to stock it properly, but this seemed too good to resist. When she showed the ad to David, he was immediately hooked and began finagling ways to finance it. The new credit card, with 0 percent interest for three months, made it possible. David didn’t want to think about bills right now; he was about to hit some of Europe’s finest culinary destinations, and he wanted to savor what was to come. His boss was not excited about him taking extra vacation time, but David promised to work overtime when he got home to make up for the time off. As they sat at the gate at the airport, Beth found it hard to believe they were about to do it. Not only would they eat as they never had before at places unlike any they had ever been, but they would also be hosted along the way by celebrity chefs! So much for her newly begun diet. Beth was not about to be both- ered by calorie or cholesterol counts for the next two weeks. She was not about to waste the $3,500 apiece that she and David had invested in this trip by being anything less than a full partici- pant. David and Beth loved the “good life,” and as they boarded the jet, they knew it was about to get a whole lot better — at least for the next two weeks. They would deal with their bills and waistlines later.
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