LIVING
16.21.a - France as It Contradicts, France as It Moves Us
FRANCE AS IT MEANS—the paradoxes France philosophises about and everyone else ig...
French American Lunch at Chez Fabien Bistro in Historic...
For starters, we had an aperitif sitting on the sidewalk terrace of Chez Fabien ...
Why Does France Feel So Paradoxical? (Spoiler: It’s Not...
Every country contradicts itself. France philosophises about it, America ignores...
16.21 - France as it Happens: New Arrivals, Fond Farewe...
FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS — A new contributor arrives, a beloved one is remembered, a...
Easy French Almond Cake
As you may already know from the blog posts, I have a deep fondness for anything...
Easy Almond Flour Cookies with Just 3 Ingredients
After seeing all those irresistible social media posts about almond cookies, I c...
From Galette des Rois to Almond Croissants: My Almond O...
Every year, history repeats itself, and on January 6th, Epiphany Day, and throug...
A Love Affair with Bandol
You come for the wine. You come back for the place. One perfect day in France's ...
A glass, a chair, a parking space – the city that lives...
19 years ago, I visited Paris for the first time.
Rue du Temple: Where the Knights Templar Still Haunt Paris
Beneath this elegant Marais street lies the memory of a vanished medieval fortre...
16.20.a - Three Generations, 40,000 Bistros, One Curtai...
FRANCE AS IT MEANS—Sunday lunch as architecture, a bistro reckoning 40,000 deep,...
Grandmère’s Table — How French Families Weave Three Gen...
In a world designed to keep us apart, one weekly ritual quietly holds French fam...
16.20 - What France Does to People Who Weren't Looking
FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS — A Dordogne stone house, a dressing room that went sideway...
I Went to Buy a Dress in Bordeaux
I left with coral lipstick, a security alarm, and a hanger I did not own.
