“A Full Belly is the Mother of all Evil,” Benjamin Franklin counselled the readers of…
Tag: France
When Elizabeth David came home to Britain in 1946, after spending the war years in Egypt,…
Gertrude Stein famously wrote that a writer has to have two countries, “the one where…
Scads of American memoirists have rhapsodized about their wonderful meals in Paris’s restaurants, but Janet…
Nicole Diver, the anti-heroine of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel, Tender is the Night (1934),…
Outside every public school in Paris the French flag flies above the door and the…
A few days ago, strolling goggle-eyed through the glitz and glam of Bon Marché, Paris’s…
In French there is an expression, sabrer le champagne, which means to open a bottle of…
Baking is all about the magic of transformation. When it comes to savory food, I…
Waiting in line to buy apples from Evelyne Nochet’s family orchard Le Nouveau Verger at the Mouton-Duvernet Friday market…
Rachel Hope Cleves 