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Tag: champagne
When Isadora Duncan’s mother was pregnant with the dancer, she could eat only iced oysters and iced…
Scads of American memoirists have rhapsodized about their wonderful meals in Paris’s restaurants, but Janet…
In French there is an expression, sabrer le champagne, which means to open a bottle of…
The very first place in Paris that Christopher Newman, the tourist-hero of Henry James’s 1876-7…
It’s easy to get lost in Paris, despite Baron Haussmann’s best efforts to impose order…
The recipe for haschich fudge that makes Alice B. Toklas’s 1954 cook book notorious may,…