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Boudin Noir

Iโ€™m not one of those โ€œextreme eatersโ€ and I doubt youโ€™ll ever see me on one of those television shows showing off how brave I am, boasting about eating Lord-knows-what. In fact, I am the opposite end: Iโ€™m a defender of those who donโ€™t want to eat certain things. Who cares what other peopleโ€™s food preferences are?* A few years back I got to cookโ€ฆ

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In and Near Chablis

For a variety of reasons, we decided to extend our twenty-four hour vacation by forty-eight hours. Actually, there were only two reasons: One was that there was a massive heat wave last week in Paris that was roasting us, and everyone else in the city. And two, a friend who lives outside of Paris โ€“ who has a pool โ€“ invited us to come. Soโ€ฆ

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Fรชte de Charcuterie

Someone recently asked me if people in Paris have started raising chickens in their backyard. I had to pause for a minute, and wanted to remind folks that Paris wasnโ€™t Brooklyn, nor does anyone have โ€“ at least in my circles โ€“ a backyard in Paris. And if they did, they could afford a country house and would raise their chickens out there. But Frenchโ€ฆ

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