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Euro Blogging By Pestโ€ฆI Mean, Post

This April marks a very special three-year anniversary. Do I celebrate with a coupe of Champagne? Do I whip out the mixer and make a celebration cake? Do I pull out whatโ€™s left of my hair and be bitter? No, noโ€ฆand maybe. In April of 2003, I shipped two cases of books to my address in Paris, and somewhere between here and there, someone isโ€ฆ

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Four Jobs Iโ€™ve Had: 1. Restocking the salad bar at The Vineyard restaurant. You wouldnโ€™t eat the hard-boiled eggs at a salad bar if you saw where they come from. And I donโ€™t mean the chickens. 2. The photo processing counter at Service Merchandise. We would wait for certain customers to drop off their film. Some were famous. At least amongst us. Especially Mr. Sabatiniโ€ฆ.

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La Gastro

When I used to get sick in America, I would get congested, a sore throat, sometimes a runny nose, and a fever. In France, whenever I get sick, it bypasses every other organ and heads straight to my stomach. I donโ€™t know if itโ€™s the rich foods, the dubious rules of storage, or a new set of germs as foreign to me as the 14โ€ฆ

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The Soon-To-Be-Extinct Meme

Kevin at Seriously Good tagged me with this, The 2006 Food Challenge of This Year I Dare! Youโ€™re supposed to talk about things youโ€™re going to do different in the kitchen this year. Hereโ€™s a fewโ€ฆ Garbage Bags Iโ€™m only going to buy premium, top-quality garbage bags this year. No more el-cheapo, whisper-thin bags that you could read Le Monde through. I generate mounds ofโ€ฆ

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