Hotels await tough winterChristchurch hotels face a difficult winter ahead, but trading should improve by next year despite the demands of filling extra hotel rooms which were becoming available in the city, the New Zealand Hotel Council says.

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'Irish' food in Chicago isn't quite so in IrelandWhat, you may well ask, is Irish food? \"The Irish used to have a very rich, complex food culture, but that was hundreds of years ago,\" says writer Coleman Andrews. In The Country Cooking of Ireland (Chronicle Books, $50), he'scollected and refined more than 225 recipes, documenting both a historicand an emerging Irish cuisine. Both are pretty far from Chicago Irish fare.