Growing up in America during the late 1970s and 80s, my juvenile imagination equated the…
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You know you are reading a French cookbook when the author’s instructions begin, “marinate for…
The charm of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), Gertrude Stein’s tongue-in-cheek “memoir” of her partner,…
Like many Americans, I studied French in school, choosing it over the more practical Spanish…
Embarking on a new reading list is, to me, a highlight of starting a new…
Every fall, friends of ours in Victoria hold a party where all the adults are…
A historian might envy the cat’s nine lives. Few of us have so many opportunities…
Rachel Hope Cleves 