I've spent more than two decades traveling around the world buying and selling antiques and seeking out great places to eat on the road.

Real value often has little to do with price. So whether it is trading a forager two bottles of wine for a bag of morels harvested in the sandy pine woods along the Illinois River or mortgaging the house to buy a fabulous pair of wrought iron carriage gates salvaged from a French Chateau, I'll be there with my fork or my forklift....