Mastering the Art of French Eating
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2013And with a grand voilà, here it is: I am so thrilled to share with you the cover of my new book! Isn’t it gorgeous? Just gazing at those café tables makes me want to hop on a plane to Paris to sip wine and eat cheese. I especially love that the photo was taken [...]
Cassoulet
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013Last week, I reveled in reading F. Scott Fitzgerald and baking banana bread, but this week I have to admit, I missed my manuscript. I thought I couldn’t wait to turn it in, but after a few days without it, I started to feel kind of lost. An experienced writer would tell me now is [...]
The next big thing (find out what I’m working on)
Thursday, October 18th, 2012I was so honored (and, to be honest, a little nervous) to be tagged by the novelist Stephanie Cowell on this questionnaire about my current work in progress. I always feel a bit weird talking about a book that’s not yet published. But I also wanted to share a little of what I’m working on [...]
Rue de Loo
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012One of the first things I bought for our new apartment was the picture. It’s a photo of Julia Child in her kitchen in Paris, and I wanted to hang it in my own. By now, Julia’s story has become the stuff of bestselling memoirs and blockbuster films. But those of us who love Julia are each [...]
Strawberries and cream
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012The past few weeks have been a peculiar period, equal parts self-indulgent and diligent. Never have I spent so many hours on end inside my apartment, not even when I had the great gastro of 2009 and could only eat liquids for three weeks. My husband took over the cooking and grocery shopping — turns out [...]
Carte postale: Un petit café
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012Sipped on the beautiful terrasse of the Café Select. P.S. Posts have recently been light because I am working frantically on finishing my new book, which is due in less than two weeks (insert quiet freak out). I’ll be back soon. P.P.S. I’m very excited that said book will be a hot title at the London [...]
Shades of pink Toulouse
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012They call Toulouse la ville en rose, a city built of bricks that cast a rosy glow. Two weeks ago, just before the tragic events that struck the region, I visited this southern city and caught an ombre of pinks with my camera… Palest petal pink at the L’hôtel d’Assézat, once the palatial home of [...]
Alsace
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011Is everyone bilingual in Alsace? On a recent trip there, I heard shopkeepers and restaurant owners switching between French and the local dialect, Alsacian, snapping from one to the other without batting an umlaut. Alsacian is etymologically close to Swiss German — I heard lots of ja, ja, ja, mixed with the occasional ça va [...]
Fall foliage in Burgundy
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011Last week I went to Burgundy for a few days. Though the purpose of my trip was to eat research boeuf Bourguignon — I’m saving tales of wine-braised beef, garlicky snails, and liquid Epoisses cheese for a chapter in my new book – I also spent a lot of time driving (over 620 miles in four days!) and marveling [...]
Cheese fondue canicule
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011Salut, mes amis! I’m excited today to share part two of our vacation photos: Annecy and the French Alps. Don’t those names conjure up cool air and fresh mountain breezes? Alas, we arrived in the midst of a canicule — that is, a heat wave — which draped the town in a swathe of stickiness. But [...]
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