Today, we tend to think of time as a straight line. Whether or not you believe in time travel, it’s hard to argue the fact that events happen one after the other,…
Category: Beef
Foodbuzz 24×24: Parisian North African Market Adventures
I love my local market in the 15th arrondissement. I go once or twice a week to pick up my day-to-day groceries; my cheese guy knows my order by heart, and my…
I love Paris… and beef bourguignon
When I was growing up, I was never the one who was all that into romance movies. Most of my best friends were guys or girls who were also mostly friends with…
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…
Steak au vin rouge
Yes, I know that it’s blistering out everywhere, and the last thing you probably want to eat is steak in a butter-laden sauce, but I have a reason for posting this now,…
Steak with Beurre Rouge and Aligot with Comté
“C’est l’histoire d’un garçon mélancolique parce qu’il a grandi dans un pays suicidé. C’est l’histoire d’un pays qui a réussi à perdre deux guerres en faisant croire qu’il les avait gagnées, et…
Faits d’hiver
There’s a linguistics phenomenon–I’m drawing a blank on its name at the moment, though I’m sure someone will remind me promptly–that says that a person or culture will justify an erroneous statement…
Montaigne and Bolognese
Distingo est le plus universel membre de ma logique. – Michel de Montaigne I don’t know whether it’s the sign of a true blogger or a true lit. geek, but whichever the…
Paella
It’s strange how quickly you start to intuit cooking for a large group of people, once you’ve got your groove. Our trips to the supermarket were epic: five whole chickens, packs of…
Apéro, cargolade and bolas de picoulat
After more than three years of living in this country, I like to think that I’ve assimilated enough of the French culture to no longer feel like “one of them,” even if…