There comes a time, every fall, when I start to realize quite how much I miss Paziols. Leaving Paziols isn’t like leaving New York. I never stay in New York long; I’m…
Tag: France
Fête de l’Abricot
No, it’s not apricot season. But I still have apricot jam from this summer lying around, and so can you (I am America, and So Can You!), if you pick up several…
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…
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…
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…
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…