I went to the Salon des Gourmets at Porte de Versailles. It was much smaller than the Salon de l’Agriculture, but that didn’t stop me from making a little dent. I brought the Country Boy this…
Category: Paris et Ma Vie
All things Parisian, and tidbits about my life
Monday Morning
Monday morning. It’s been a month since this route is my morning routine, but I still forget to head towards Mairie d’Issy – just one stop – instead of towards Porte de…
Salon de l’Agriculture: What I Brought Home.
Being at home after an all-day feeding frenzy like the Salon de l’Agriculture is a little bit strange. You’ve sampled a bit of everything: some foie gras, some saucisson, a helluva lot…
Salon de l’Agriculture
I very often find that the things that have very little hype around them are the best of all. Hype tends to ruin things, make them seem less amazing than you thought…
sanglier, gaulois, dol de bretagne
I’m afraid that I may not have been entirely frank with you, friends. You see, as I reread past posts about my life here in France, you get all of the good…
Sorry for the radio silence…
A close friend of mine and the Country Boy’s died suddenly this week, and I’ve been away from cooking and blogging. We’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming soon.
Figs, goat cheese, and my market
Life in Paris doesn’t always look exactly the way that one might expect. I sort of hope that, in writing this blog, I clarify some of the over-romanticized notions of living in…
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…
Almost American
The Almost Frenchman has found his match in the Almost American, someone I’ve met this year who yearns for America about as much as the AF yearns for France. I would love…
Le Salon du Chocolat
Halloween is not a very big deal in France. We Americans tend to ignore this fact: the past three years, Halloween has been as big an affair as it is back home,…