The U.S. Presidential Election and the American Overseas Voter
Paris, Oct. 27. Editorial on the upcoming American presidential election from the perspective of overseas voters.
A Man’s Home May Not Be His Chateau: From Versailles to Vincennes
Château can be lazily translated as castle, but a traveler in France soon learns that there are many types of chateaux and not all are castles.
Unlikely Places
July 2014—I don’t find much use for the term “off the beaten track” with regards to France. What track could possibly remain unbeaten in...
Je ne suis pas un touriste
April 2014—The announcements, invitations and press kits arrive daily in early spring, as they also do in September and then again in January, to...
Roasted French Food Porn (Includes Recipe)
I know food bloggers are supposed to be into food, but do they really have to tell us everything they eat? They remind me of 12-year-old girls with half-chewed food in their mouth, sticking their tongues out to get attention. Not very appetizing.
The Magical Pastry Issue
It took a lot of bites of the sweeter things of life in Paris to complete France Revisited’s November 2013 Magical Pastry Issue.
Though you’ll find some fine addresses in the four pastry-related articles of this issue, I didn’t set out to draw up a list of best or latest pastry shops in Paris or the city’s most famous pastry chefs, but rather to explore various aspects of la dolce vita.
France Revisited Newsletter: The Inauguration Issue
Dear Friends and Fellow Travelers, January 19, 2017. We gather here today to recognize and affirm our place in the world. We gather not to walk lock-step towards a single destination, but to wherever our interests, whims and desires may lead us, without willful harm to others. Where are we? Let us consider:
France Revisited Strikes Silver, Editor Goes on Tour
PASADENA, CA (Feb. 11, 2015)–The North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) today announced that France Revisited, www.francerevisited.com, won the Silver Award as first runner-up in the 2014 NATJA Awards Competition in the Best Online Travel Magazine category. This awards competition honors the “best of the best” in travel writing...
Writing in cafés
No offense to writers who claim to get significant work done in Paris cafés, but that’s an urban legend as far as I can...