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...
France Revisited’s Jewish Issue
Here are the 9 articles, interviews and stories that comprise France Revisited's March 2014 March Jewish Issue, including Jewish history in Paris, the Rothchilds, the de Camandos, deportation, the Marais and Passover's 11th plague
Springtime in Paris… Revisited
March 2014 – In January and February France Revisited fell silent as snowfall in the American northeast, where I spent four weeks on a...
Season’s Greetings from the City of Light
France Revisited's fetish photographer Va-nu-pieds has provided us with this year's season's greetings photo, a view of the carousel in front of Paris City Hall. Wishing you a bright and joyful holiday season. Enjoy the ride as the new year comes 'round again.
Noshing In Nice: Bread and the Bagel
The bagel isn’t about to overtake socca, the time-honored chickpea pancake, as a favorite nosh in Nice, but having made inroads into the bread-life of Paris, it’s gaining attention in the capital of the Riviera. Among those paying attention are French-born Daniele Thomas Easton and her Brooklyn-bred husband.
Passover in Paris and the 11th Plague
Max Kutner had just moved to Paris from New York and was looking for a Passover seder to attend. He found one just off the Champs-Elysées, but among the mixed ritual of French, English and Hebrew something was amiss, beginning with the 11th plague.
Love and Latkes
Melinda Mayor, "the Menschette of Montmartre,” has a gentile husband who says “oy” and who cooks better than she does and two children with whom she’d like to share her Jewish heritage, leading her on the search for the perfect potato latke in Paris.
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.
James A. Emanuel’s Sense of Place
Asked what he most appreciated about living in France, James Emanuel replied "France has been silent when I had no questions; and it has been wise and ultimately generous, even poetic, when I needed counsel to walk on, or surf to carry me toward some shore."