Gary Lee Kraut
Gary Lee Kraut is the editor of France Revisited and an award-winning travel writer. As a long-time specialist on travel and touring in France, he has become the go-to contact for individual travelers and travel agents seeking personalized travel advice and customized tours in Paris and throughout France. See the About the Editor tab at the top of this page for his complete bio.
You know you live in Paris when… You don’t
You don't live in Paris anymore. You now live at the center of a nameless territory with a radius of one kilometer, legally circumscribed by coronavirus confinement. If you were to give that territory a name, it would be your own.
Get Drunk with Charles Baudelaire
Advice for those who might be overthinking all this: Get Drunk, Enivrez-vous, by Charles Baudelaire, as read by Dustin Hoffman, Serge Reggiani and Isabelle Orliac.
5 Days in Auvergne, Part V: Mont Dore, Saint Nectaire, Chaudes-Aigues and Yu
The Auvergne diary. In which, over seven years later, the author finally responds to Yu Jia's message: "Too bad parts V and VI aren’t up, I did want to read about Mont Dore and Saint Nectaire."
Springtime in Paris: Peering in at Renewal
From our windows, from our balconies, from our brief walks and runs, we embrace the arrival of springtime in Paris despite the distance we must now keep from much of its vitality. All is not azure in the lengthening days.
France Commemorates First National Day of Homage to Victims of Terrorism
While the current health crisis causes us to withdraw into our homes, France on March 11 commemorated fear-inducing events that previously brought millions out into the street: terrorism.
Pirouette in the Time of the Coronavirus
Last night I dined with a friend at Pirouette, a contemporary, bistronomic restaurant with a sizable wine list in the Les Halles quarter of Paris. Today I received a text message from the restaurant asking if I’d recommend Pirouette to others, on a scale of 1 to 10.
Paris Crowns Best Baguette Baker of 2020
The winner of Paris’s Best Baguette in the French Tradition for 2020 has just been announced, and the prize goes to… Taieb Sahal, an artisan baker at Les Saveurs de Pierre Demours, 13 rue Pierre Demours in the 17th arrondissement.
You know you live in Paris when…: French Combat Rations
At home in Paris, in a neighborhood with an extraordinary array of food shops, bakeries and restaurants, the author opens a box of French combat rations and sets out on a mission of three square meals.
You know you live in Paris when a striker …
... texts you at 10pm
Him: Good news, I’m on strike tomorrow.
You: Good news for whom?
Him: Us. I can come by in the afternoon.
You: But I’m not on strike.