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Blog Notes and Online Appearances

-This Thursday, April 16th, Iโ€™ll be on my publisherโ€™s Instagram Feed at Ten Speed Press Iโ€™ll be talking about how to set up your own French bar as well as sharing a classic French apรฉritif that Iโ€™ll be demonstrating, which you can make at home. Itโ€™ll be taking place at 10 pm CET which is 4 pm ET, 1 pm PT. Please confirm the timeโ€ฆ

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IGTV Live Instagram Apero Hour (Happy Hour)

As some of you know, since the lockdown (and since my book tour was postponed), Iโ€™m doing a daily Apรฉro Hour (Happy Hour) on Instagram Live. At 6pm (CET, Paris time) each day, except Sunday, Iโ€™ve been demonstrating a different drink, ranging from cocktails to classic cafรฉ drinks and apรฉritifs. Along the way, Iโ€™m talking about French spirits and apรฉritifs, sharing some history and loreโ€ฆ

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Weekend Reads

We survived the recent heatwave, which seemed like a good time to update my post on Vanilla Ice Cream, with new pictures. Probably the worst thing you can do in a heatwave is photograph ice cream, but I did it. As a former restaurant line cook, I can cook or bake through anything. Having a batch of freshly churned ice cream when itโ€™s that hot,โ€ฆ

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Links Iโ€™m Likinโ€™

Ever have data loss? I ran Disk Doctor once, thinking Iโ€™d be cleaning up my goofy hard drive. Well, it works..and โ€“ poof! โ€“ everything on my computer disappeared, never to be seen again. Sign up for Crashplan and back up your data off your computer. (Thanks Michael!) Speaking of which โ€“ you might want to back up your Flickr or Facebook accounts? Backify willโ€ฆ

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Food Blogging

When I fell into blogging a while back, there were probablyย less thanย ten people blogging about food. We were a fairly chummy bunch and met up for meals, swapped links, ideas, and technical tips as the medium continued to grow. It was all pretty small-scale until the whole thing blossomed into something that few likely would have predicted. For years Iโ€™ve generally shied away from givingโ€ฆ

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