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 Dutch Golden Age: A History Lesson Through Art
You might wonder why I haven’t chosen a painting by Rembrandt or Vermeer to illustrate an article about an exhibit entitled The Dutch Golden Age,...
A Brilliant Obsession: Color at the Marmottan Monet, Black at the Pompidou
The Marmottan Monet Museum is one of the undervisited glories of the museumscape of Paris, no doubt due to its location toward the western...
This is a linden
The linden, le tilleul, has for centuries been a favored tree of European cityscapes, most famously along Berlin’s Under der Linden, which leads from...
Patricia’s Casual Cooking Class in the Town of Versailles
The Town of Versailles is often ignored by those visiting the Palace of Versailles. That’s understandable in that the palace, the gardens, and the...
Looking for Lorraine in Paris and Finding Alsace along the Way
Trains from Paris's East Station head into the Lorraine and Alsace regions of France, but products from those regions are found in and by the station.
The Borrowed Gun: Sports Shooting in France
Please don’t think that I’m looking to enter the fray of the hot-button topic of gun control in the United States when I tell...
The Art of Punching, Kissing and Lunching: Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Island near...
From the Orsay Museum to Impressionist Island in the suburb of Paris, a view of Impressionism both indoors and out. Featuring Monet, Renoir and a couple of art vandals.
La Ferrandaise: An Ode to a Cow and to a Region
Even after living in Paris for 30 years, Gilles Lamiot, proprietor of this highly satisfying restaurant near the Luxembourg Garden, sounds as though he’s...