Archive for May, 2010
Chez Julia
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010The other day I walked by Julia Child’s apartment at 81 rue de l’Université in the 7ème. She called it “rue de Loo.” There’s no plaque (though I’ve heard there’s a movement afoot to install one), but if you’ve read Julia’s memoir, My Life in France, it’s not hard to picture her living here. She […]
Subcontinental spice spree
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010I love French food as much as the next person, but a girl can’t live on steak frites alone. When a crise de chili strikes, I’ve been known to hightail it over to the 10th, for a visit to Paris’s Indian neighborhood. Here, sari shops line the boulevard, spices scent the air and people scrum to […]
La Belle Bretagne
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010I’d dreamed of going to Brittany for so long — land of crêpes and oysters, wild coast, striped shirts, wooden shoes, corsairs and fishing boats — that I was afraid it would disappoint me. It didn’t. Even though I only touched a tiny part of the jagged coast of France, I was charmed. Alors, what […]
Kitchen Chinese: What’s cooking
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Apologies for the recent paucity of posts, mes amis. I just got back from a whirlwind trip to the States and I am still struggling to catch up with everything that happened while I was away. It was a lovely trip — well worth the backlog! — capped off by a terrific reading at Borders […]