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Jodi’s Shortcuts 2006 (now in its 8th year) continues to be the # 1 guidebook to the Hamptons, and has been featured in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Daily News, Liz Smith, USA Today, W, Vanity Fair, Hamptons, Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, The New York Observer, Page Six, and on The Today Show. This year’s 2006 edition (the book's 8th edition) features the celebrity favorites and secrets from a roster of Hamptons notables including Liz Smith, Ivana Trump, Cynthia Rowley, Patrick McMullan, Dennis Basso, Frederic Fekkai, Betsey Johnson, Nicole Miller, and many, many more. The book, which waits until the last possible minute prior to the Summer, before going to press, features the hippest most up-to-the minute restaurants and nightspots you won't find in any other guidebook, this summer’s hottest events (and how to get tickets), the area's best hotels, and an Events calendar that covers every event all year long, a Sporting Events calendar & an Antiques Show calendar, Medical section, Weddings section, Gardening & Flowers section, Lodging & Real Estate section, Shelter Island, 24-hour ATM’s, 24-hour food, gas stations, emergency, newly updated restaurant reviews and village and town maps, and hundreds of brand new listings - every single new shop, hotel, restaurant, bar, gourmet & specialty store, antiques dealer, etc. in the Hamptons. The 2006 edition also features a new "Best of" section, highlighting the Hamptons’ best restaurants, gift shops, antique stores, car repair, beaches, coffee, farm stands, pharmacies, etc. There’s also a "Stops Along the Way" section, which includes info on the best pit stops along the drive out East. All of the top North Fork vineyards have also been added. Also included are the favorite restaurants and food recommendations from the area’s hottest chefs and restaurateurs. Jodi’s Shortcuts is the most up-to-the-minute guidebook with listings and information and tips you won’t find anywhere else. It’s the onl