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Easy French Almond Cake

Easy French Almond Cake

As you may already know from the blog posts, I have a deep fondness for anything...

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Easy Almond Flour Cookies with Just 3 Ingredients

Easy Almond Flour Cookies with Just 3 Ingredients

After seeing all those irresistible social media posts about almond cookies, I c...

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From Galette des Rois to Almond Croissants: My Almond Obsession

From Galette des Rois to Almond Croissants: My Almond O...

Every year, history repeats itself, and on January 6th, Epiphany Day, and throug...

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A Love Affair with Bandol

A Love Affair with Bandol

You come for the wine. You come back for the place. One perfect day in France's ...

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A glass, a chair, a parking space – the city that lives outdoors

A glass, a chair, a parking space – the city that lives...

19 years ago, I visited Paris for the first time.

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Temple of the Imagined

Temple of the Imagined

A Visit to the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris

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She Chose Life

She Chose Life

Monique Lévi-Strauss turned 100 this year. You probably know the name. I suggest...

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Rue du Temple: Where the Knights Templar Still Haunt Paris

Rue du Temple: Where the Knights Templar Still Haunt Paris

Beneath this elegant Marais street lies the memory of a vanished medieval fortre...

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16.20.a - Three Generations, 40,000 Bistros, One Curtain That Wouldn't Close

16.20.a - Three Generations, 40,000 Bistros, One Curtai...

FRANCE AS IT MEANS—Sunday lunch as architecture, a bistro reckoning 40,000 deep,...

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Grandmère’s Table — How French Families Weave Three Generations Together Through Sunday Lunch

Grandmère’s Table — How French Families Weave Three Gen...

In a world designed to keep us apart, one weekly ritual quietly holds French fam...

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16.20 - What France Does to People Who Weren't Looking

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...

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I Went to Buy a Dress in Bordeaux

I Went to Buy a Dress in Bordeaux

I left with coral lipstick, a security alarm, and a hanger I did not own.

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20 Streets of Paris #5: Rue du Temple

20 Streets of Paris #5: Rue du Temple

Fifth Episode—A journey of discovery through Parisian history, one street sign a...

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“Call My Agent! The Movie” Premieres Exclusively on Netflix

“Call My Agent! The Movie” Premieres Exclusively on Net...

Call My Agent! The Movie, aka Dix Pour Cent, Le Film, will be released on Septem...

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THE WRITERS' ROOM: Shining the spotlight on MyFrenchLife Contributors

THE WRITERS' ROOM: Shining the spotlight on MyFrenchLif...

The Writers’ Room is where the storytellers become the story.

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The Room that Holds Everyone

The Room that Holds Everyone

Why the French bistro was never really only about food — and what disappears whe...