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New Server Itโ€™s niรงoiseโ€“ish salad days around here since weโ€™ve made the long-awaited and much-needed move to a larger server. The site should be loading much faster than it was before on the dinky server Iโ€™ve been limping along with. Hence we called it a day. However all was not without a glitch and you may have encountered some error messages recently. Sorry about that,โ€ฆ

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Baguettes

As you probably have guessed by now, Iโ€™m quite different from the other Parisians. Aside from my less-than-stellar command of the language and a rather bizarre desire not to walk right into others on the sidewalk, I donโ€™t buy that many baguettes. Itโ€™s not that I donโ€™t like them. (Baguettes, I meanโ€”although I like Parisians tooโ€ฆexcept when they walk right into you.) Itโ€™s just thatโ€ฆ

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Links โ€˜n Logs

Super tips on asking strangers permission to snap their photo. Oh, la vache is right! Let your homemade ice cream rest in Sweet Bliss. International Travel Boo-Boos. Drink wine through a straw? Mastering perfect popcorn. My new, favorite place to see Parisians in Birkenstocks. I guess itโ€™s not so hidden anymore. Paris goes Wi-Fi! le Smart car is en route to America. Ever wonder howโ€ฆ

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Elderberry Syrup Recipe

During the summer, like everyone else in Paris, I get outta town for a long break. I often visit friends who live in the country in nearby in the Seine-et-Marne, a region a little over an hour from Paris. You probably know about the famous cheese from there, brie de Meaux, which is sold in big, gooey rounds at most of the markets in theโ€ฆ

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salade Nicoise

Ah, la salade niรงoiseโ€ฆ One of the classics of French cooking and one of my favorite things to dig into sitting on the terrace of a cafรฉ, dreaming idling away the afternoon by the sparkling Mediterranean. But really, who wouldnโ€™t want to dig into a big, fresh salad bursting forth with the flavors of the sunny French Riviera, no matter where you live? Thereโ€™s alwaysโ€ฆ

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Devilโ€™s Food Cake Recipe

Whenever an American friend in Paris has a birthday, I invariably offer to make the cake for the big fรชte. Not that thereโ€™s a lack of great bakeries in Paris, but Americans always seem to crave the same thing: a big, tall, all-American chocolate cake with an overabundance of swirls and swoops of chocolate frosting.ย And who am I to deny them? And what better toโ€ฆ

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Summer tomato salad recipe

Most larger buildings in Paris have a concierge. But before you think that I live somewhere thatโ€™s all fancy and stuff, itโ€™s basically another name for the gardienne, normally a woman who takes care of things like delivering the mail and making sure repairs get handled. But even more importantly, she ensures that not even the slightest infraction of the rules or smallest detail ofโ€ฆ

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