Legendary Paris Dinner Parties

Scads of American memoirists have rhapsodized about their wonderful meals in Paris’s restaurants, but Janet Flanner, who for decades wrote Continue reading →

The Belly of Paris

Although he managed to escape Paris – and starvation – during the Prussian siege in the fall of 1870, the Continue reading →

Égalité of the stomach, at least

Outside every public school in Paris the French flag flies above the door and the lintel is engraved with the Continue reading →

Consuming the Paris Commune

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 →

Truffled Turkey

Thanksgiving food writing is full of recipes and histories of the dishes that we find on the American table, like Continue reading →

The Rapture of Spring

In French there is an expression, sabrer le champagne, which means to open a bottle of champagne with a sabre. Before last Continue reading →

Rapture for Cooking

Jimmie the Barman, who poured the drinks at many of the best-known Lost Generation drinking holes including the Dingo, the Continue reading →

Montmartre Is Dead!

“Montmartre is dead!” screamed the headline of a February 1924 obituary in The Living Age, an American weekly review. The famed Continue reading →