Food, cooking, and travel
When we visit Paris, we always stay at the same hotel – the Citadines in the 14ème arrondissement. This section of the city is part of Montparnasse, a section most known for what it used to be. Today it is a mixture of residential and …
As I hope you’ve noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a sabbatical for a while. Every once in a while, real life can get in the way and there just aren’t enough hours in the day for everything that you’d like to do. I …
My true love and I have been traveling to Paris since 2004 and we have always stayed at the same hotel – Citadines Didot Montparnasse. It is located in the southern part of the 14eme arrondisement in a residential middle class neighborhood, far from Notre …
When I was 10 years old my family spent a year in California’s Bay Area and one of our regular treats would be a Sunday afternoon dinner at Tarantino’s. Overlooking Fisherman’s Wharf, it was (and probably still is) a white tablecloth restaurant featuring seafood from …
What is this doing here? This is a food blog, right? Well, yes, mostly, but it is also about travel and we have just spent the most extraordinary two days here in Paris. I’m not a big fan of football/soccer but I recognize a big …
My true love and I have just begun our annual vacation in Paris and while today was less than Stella (more on my next post) I really felt the need for a quickie. We always stay at the same hotel (Citadines Didot Montparnasse) on rue …
One of the real joys of traveling is eating. Dining out in restaurants in the cities I’m visiting is always a highpoint of the trip – not only sampling the local cuisine but also trying international dishes prepared in different contexts. For example, the first …
The title of today’s post is a little ironic. We’re back in Philadelphia and for our first meal after coming home, I prepared a roasted dorade (sea bream) accompanied by corn on the cob, coleslaw, and a green salad for desert. As my true love …
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 …