HOME– A thousand kisses on each cheek for trekking along on my French adventure this summer and allowing me to drone on about moldy cheese and macaroons. You’ve been a good sport and I really appreciate your sweet wishes and comments. Coming back felt a bit like being picked up by two giant fingers and [...]
EXTRA! EXTRA! — Rich says I have PostParispartum. I have been moping around the house for a week. I miss the sun sparkling on the Seine, the women with their knotted scarves, the exotic offerings at the outdoor markets. I miss not knowing what people are talking about at the table next to me. And [...]
PARIS– I prefer to savor one dish in its entirety without mixing my meal together on a plate like a swamp of grits, runny eggs and bacon. Well, unless it’s grits, runny eggs and bacon. There’s a label for my peculiarity: uni-eater. Lucky for moi, French meals progress in a way that is particularly satisfying [...]
PARIS–June 24, 2009. “You are approaching your destination,” the woman on our rental’s navigation system informs us. And so we are. Our trip to Giverny, Mont St. Michel and the beaches of Normandy is over. It’s 10 o’clock at night and the summer sun is finally setting. We fly our small white Peugeot into Centre [...]
PARIS– I found myself walking around Mont St. Michel at midnight tonight. By some miracle, the majestic abbey on the rock island in Northern France was open until one a.m. and so, of course, we wandered around until the monks closed their massive wooden, moat-covering, iron-spiked doors. Our hotel is just across the causeway and, [...]
PARIS—Every cook in the world longs to hear those three words that make their whisk beat unlike any other sweetened syllables. Three words whose mere thought sparks a flame that lights a fuse that fires off an echo deep inside their head of a bellowing voice reverberating like a cannon’s boom across the sky: Le [...]
PARIS– Paris is a pilgrimage for cooks and foodies from all over the world. So many chapters of the history of cuisine have been written here. From Escoffier’s brilliant recognition of a fifth taste, to Julia Childs’ translations of haute French recipes for the American home cook, to the all-night dinners and debauchery at Gertrude [...]
PARIS—All is well in Paris. We’ve had a storybook week of brilliant sun, blue skies, warm breezes, and shady strolls through tree-canopied gardens and along winding backstreet sidewalks. But, this morning is different: it’s raining. We’re staying in and drinking large American-sized cups of steaming strong coffee and eating day-old baguettes slathered with salted butter [...]
HOME– The Îles Flottantes, or Floating Islands are dreamy balls of billowy meringue whipped up for silver spoons to slip into at the end of a hearty French bistro meal. In the dessert case, these massive snowballs, drizzled with melted caramel, float in baths of liquid custard– golden crème anglaise. As light and fluffy as [...]
LES ÉTATS-UNIS– As the drunken crow flies, we traveled home from France to South Carolina via Michigan and Tennessee. And despite the current financial pandemic, the lack of gasoline at the pumps and the roaring political rodeo, life in the US of A seems fairly resolute. Walking the airport corridors for two days, waiting on [...]
PARIS– Over the years, we’ve checked off all the Paris destination must-sees. We’d memorized our waltz through the Musee D’Orsay- this is where Monet’s La Pie lives, this is where Van Gogh hangs out; we’d done the Pompidou, the Pyramid, the Sacré Coeur, the Champs-Elysées, the Père Lachaise, the Notre Dame, the Latin Quarter, the [...]
PARIS– It’s our fifth day in the celebrated center of civilized life. For centuries, the Parisians have been crafting and refining their language, their style, their joie de vivre and their food. They’ve certainly mastered the art of the meal. Eating in Paris is less pretentious and far more accessible than many yet-to-visit, realize. It’s [...]
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