Fresno native in national cookoff Sep 16, 2009
Elder is cooking her Monte Cristo strata. It features turkey, ham, Swiss cheese and cranberry sauce. (Fresno Bee)
Climber Dies After Fall In Snohomish County Jul 6, 2009
-- A climber fell and died in the Monte Cristo area of Snohomish County on Sunday, said Rebecca Hover of the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office ... Monte Cristo is located off the Mountain Loop Highway in the Barlow Pass area, between Darrington and Granite Falls. (KIRO TV, WA)
Why Wall Street needs a Napoleon to shake it up Apr 8, 2009
My children and I have been reading a chapter of Alexander Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" each night after dinner, a pastime requiring frequent discursions into Napoleonic history and the implications of the French Revolution, which always gets everyone fired up and ready to roughhouse right before it's time to brush teeth. Last week, we had a particularly stimulating discussion while wrestling with a passage in which Villefort, the deputy crown prosecutor of Marseilles, who will soon be... (Salon)
