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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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 [...]
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March 6, 2011. Here are four French lessons that I learned in February on the Riviera and in Alsace. 1. Carnival in Nice Nice’s Carnival, the 3-week period of parades leading up to Mardi Gras [...]
The way Jack LaLanne talked about health and fitness on TV reminds me the way that some farmers and organic wine producers in France talk about their products. I wonder: if Jack LaLanne’s parent had never emigrated from Oloron Sainte Marie in the Atlantic Pyrenees region of southwest France he might have become famous for producing organic goat cheese… and maybe lived longer.
A Bloomberg news headline of October 2010, taken up by many online publications, states “Strikes at Eiffel Tower, Orsay Museum Leave Tourists Stranded.”
On July 4th I went to Cupcake Camp in a Paris bistro. The event was by proud Americans who seemed to have fogotten that July 4th was also the Fourth of July.
Massaï Mara, a gathering place for the Cameroonian (and wider central African) community in Paris, led by the bright and joyful smile of owner Alice Abene.
