When I was growing up, we went apple picking every fall. Usually with our cousins, but sometimes alone, we filled giant paper bags with McIntosh apples, eating them as we picked until…
Author: emiglia
potimarron, goat cheese, caramelized onions, crust, tomatoes
Being an eternal student, I’ve always felt — and still do — that the year starts in September. January is so random, so in the dead of winter. It doesn’t feel like…
Dol-de-Bretagne
It’s been awhile since we discussed food, which I realize, as the writer of a food blog, is strange, so let’s remedy that straight away: the last stop on the Sous-Chef’s and…
Mont St-Michel and St-Malo
I don’t vacation very often; I generally don’t like it. I don’t love living out of a suitcase. I don’t like deciding what’s essential from my bathroom cupboards before leaving, only to…
No pictures.
I don’t have much to say about today. I think that most of what I would say, should I decide to say it, has already been said a hundred times over since…
La Rochelle
So… I disappeared for awhile. I wanted to finish talking about my trip with the Sous-Chef, but in the meantime, I was cooking up a storm and saving up pictures to use…
Foodbuzz 24×24: Last Hike and Picnic of Summer
“Summer,” this year, at least for me, was a relative term. Summer usually includes June in Paris, speckled with trips to the south with my Partner-in-Crime, Emese, July in Paziols, where afternoons…
St-Emilion: Wine. And other less interesting things.
When I first started this blog, it was a food blog only. I even had a separate travel blog for travel-related articles. Then, about three years ago, I noticed something: people actually…
Bordeaux: I forgot to take pictures of the steak. And the wine.
I’ve been to Bordeaux once before. In 2007, right after my stay in Cannes, two friends and I backpacked through Europe and stopped for a few days, between Cannes and Caen. As…