Oenophilia
A Moveable (exorbitant) feast
Thursday, September 18th, 2008If you’ve read Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, you know all about his hand-to-mouth days as a young writer in 1920s Paris. Oh, those romantic days, when the fireplaces weren’t simply ornamental, when fisherman worked the Seine, when a young man — Hem — could spend his days poor, happy, and writing in cafés, and his […]
Flashback to Provence: V Comme Vin wine shop
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Don’t worry, Cooking the Books is still blogging live from Paris. But I forgot to mention earlier a wonderful wine shop in Apt, one of the larger towns in the Luberon region of Provence. It’s called V Comme Vin (photo above) and aside from their huge selection of French wine, they offer an especially large assortment of wine […]