Food, cooking, and travel
I can speak and read a little French, enough to get by in most situations. I still rely, though, on my iPhone Google translate app from time to time, especially for quick vocabulary help. From time to time, though, I’m reminded of the dangers of …
There is a commonly held view that French cooking is fancy. Images of court banquets at Versailles, Marie Antionette’s recommendations to eat cake, famous chefs like Escoffier and Paul Bocuse, and three star Michelin restaurants create a convention that French food is dependent upon exquisite …
I haven’t written about food in a while and I promise I will but I have another diversion first. On Tuesday I talked about our visit to the Jardin D’Acclimatation, which was at one time one of three zoos in Paris. It was established to …
We’re calling it an early evening tonight. It’s been very hot the last couple of days and this just seemed like a good day for salads on the balcony. Before going there, though, I’ve got something of a rant. On Monday when we went to …
We’re in Paris again for our annual summer holiday. We’ve been coming here for several years, long enough to have built up a routine that is probably a little out of the ordinary. We stay at the Citadines in the 14th arrondisement (district) in the southern part …
About a week or so ago I was reading up on primary grain cultivation from the perspective of 5000 BC and changes in current production. You can find that here. I was going through a little pasta phase, but the books I was reading on …