Nearly every day Harris, 34, dutifully files an online report to a company in Boston called BzzAgent, detailing various aspects of his salesmanship, such as the time he left a copy of the magazine in a hotel spa.

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Which is why I will be taking my presentation on my computer, putting it on an external drive, posting it to an FTP server for a colleague to download and putting my FedEx account number on speed dial in case a copy needs to get to the hotel overnight.

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Earlier in the day he did a food demonstration at the Sandy Lane Hotel where fans bought every copy of his new book, The Latin Road Home, his second cookbook, which tells the story of his food journey.

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