This is not a restaurant review of Oth Sombath, a French-Thai restaurant on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris’s 8th arrondissement where I went as a favor to a French expert in gastronomy, unless he was doing me the favor of inviting me.

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Dec. 2011. Some much appreciated recognition came knocking at my screen this month, one via from California, the other via Melbourne, Australia. First the California-based North American Travel Journalist Association informed me that I was their “featured [...]

Visitors often ask me about the price of an apartment in Paris. Nothing fancy, they say, just a little one- or two-bedroom pied-à-terre in case they decide to come more often. Here then are some examples of [...]

Nov. 2, 2011. There’s something therapeutic about turning the clocks back in the fall—harsh reality therapy. For an hour or two we can fool ourselves into believing that we’ve gained an hour of Saturday night [...]

Photolog of a daytrip to the Chateau de Chantilly, 25 minutes north of Paris by train, at the entrance to the Picardy region. It includes the Conde Museum of Henri d’Orleans (Duc d’Aumale), palatial stables, gardens (including by Le Notre) and park.

Now that Restaurant Week and Gastronomy Days have ended in France, it’s time to remind ourselves that: – there’s more to life than the Food Channel, – most food blogging is a form of pornography (nothing [...]

France Revisited seeks co-taste-testers for a new series of articles about local food and drink products and their producers in France.