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I have written about the entrepreneur Fred Harvey in numerous columns as I go here and there, searching for places worth visiting. And most places are worth visiting — well, perhaps not an IRS office, ...

BELEN, N.M. (KRQE) – One museum is bringing back a café experience from the 1930s. Wednesday was the opening day of the new café inside the Fred Harvey House Museum in Belen. “It’s like a time capsule ...

Fred Harvey was an 1800s culinary innovator who believed he could serve the finest cuisine in the middle of nowhere, according to Stephen Fried, who wrote about the restaurateur in Appetite for ...

Hands down, the worst restaurant meal I’ve ever been served was at El Tovar, the resort at the Grand Canyon. I was disappointed, because the El Tovar is, of course, a Fred Harvey resort. Or at least ...

“Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West” by Stephen Fried, $27 This last month, when anyone asked me, “What are ...