
The Benjamin Franklin Diet
“A Full Belly is the Mother of all Evil,” Benjamin Franklin counselled the readers of his 1743 edition of Poor Richard’s Continue reading
“A Full Belly is the Mother of all Evil,” Benjamin Franklin counselled the readers of his 1743 edition of Poor Richard’s Continue reading
When Elizabeth David came home to Britain in 1946, after spending the war years in Egypt, her agonies from the the flavorless diet she Continue reading
Gertrude Stein famously wrote that a writer has to have two countries, “the one where they belong and the one Continue reading
Scads of American memoirists have rhapsodized about their wonderful meals in Paris’s restaurants, but Janet Flanner, who for decades wrote Continue reading
Nicole Diver, the anti-heroine of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final novel, Tender is the Night (1934), first appears in its pages Continue reading
Outside every public school in Paris the French flag flies above the door and the lintel is engraved with the Continue reading
A few days ago, strolling goggle-eyed through the glitz and glam of Bon Marché, Paris’s ultra-upscale department store, I passed Continue reading
In French there is an expression, sabrer le champagne, which means to open a bottle of champagne with a sabre. Before last Continue reading