This Sunday in Paris Since I’m determined to master all those numbers in French (…like what is up with that 20 x 4 + 10 + 9 = 99?), I’ll be helping my friend Régis this Sunday morning, September 21, at the Bastille market from 10am to Noon. He specializes in hand-harvested salts from his family’s marshes in Brittany, and you’re welcome to stop by…
Proving that eating fresh, flavorful, sustainable food doesn’t have to be expensive, time consuming, or elitist, I walked to my local market this morning and bought these two sardines. I decided a few months ago to try and limit my fish-eating to sustainable species, which meant bypassing my formerly-beloved tuna steaks and forgoing sushi, in favor of critters like these slender sardines. This morning, passing…
As many readers know, I often did posts which included links to blogs and other places around the web that I found interesting and worth sharing. I now share those links on my Facebook page since I have just too many things to share here on the blog—like all-important stories about Paris bakeries, Italian gents with fabulous hair who scoop gelato, and my ill-fated search…
During the recent site redesign, the feed address for the blog changed and some of you weren’t receiving feeds or notifications in your blog readers. Subsequently, my web fellow re-did the feed—so if you’re using the old feed, it is presently directing you to the new feed, but you should change it to the new one. You can get the current RSS feed address by…
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At long last, after plenty of tinkering, I decided to lighten things up with a relooking, as they say in France, with a fresh, brand-new design for the site. The new look is easier for you to read and more organized. There’s less-distracting colors, and far more order.You’ll find the archives neatly-arranged and categories on my spiffy new sidebar, a better and faster search engine,…
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