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Even though itโ€™s just next door, every time I go to Italy, I wonder why I donโ€™t go more often. Before I moved to Europe, I used to wonder why Europeans didnโ€™t travel to other countries more often. And now Iโ€™m one of them. I think itโ€™s because just to go anywhere, whether itโ€™s a 45 minutes flight or a 4.5 hour flight, you stillโ€ฆ

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Turkey Salad with Lemon, Capers, Mustard and Cornichons

Patricia Wells has been writing about Paris for decades, and put a lot of bakeries, restaurants, and reallyโ€ฆanything food-relatedโ€”on the map for visitors. And when Patricia recently invited me and some friends over for lunch in her well-equipped Paris cooking school kitchen to celebrate her new book on salads, I jumped at the chance (okay, I didnโ€™t jump because people would have looked at meโ€ฆ

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Dandelion Pesto

Iโ€™m one of those people that really craves bitter greens. And France is a funny place because on one hand, radicchio (trevise), frisรฉe, arugula, and Belgian endive are found easily. The more sturdy greens โ€“ like kale and broccoli rabe, are frequently absent, although I did recently hear an Italian vendor at the market explaining to a baffled patron what broccoli raab was. He toldโ€ฆ

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Swiss Chard Tart (Tourte de blettes)

When I was in Nice a few months ago with my friends Adam and Matt, I wanted to show them some of the more unusual local specialties, ones you wouldnโ€™t come across unless you were actually in a certain region. French cooking is very regional, which is why you wonโ€™t find bouillabaisse in Paris or all that many macarons in Nice. And a lot ofโ€ฆ

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Le Garde Robe and Spring

Iโ€™ve noted that wine bars in Paris often are the best places for casual dining in town. So when my friend Rochelle, a pastry chef friend from the States, came to visit, I wanted to go somewhere easygoing, where weโ€™d be assured of good, honest food. So we agreed to meet at Le Garde Robe,ย  which serves mostly natural wines. Another plus are the charcuterieโ€ฆ

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Involtini: Feta & Prosciutto Rolls

I was having drinks at a friendโ€™s house last night, who is a cuistot, the French slang for a cook. I donโ€™t think youโ€™d say cuistat for a woman, but whatever you want to call us, the conversation pretty much stayed on one topic: Food. We talked literally for hours while we drank brisk sauvignon blanc and picked apart an amazing wedge of 30 month-oldโ€ฆ

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Roasted Root Vegetable & Wheat Berry Salad

Last summer, Romain went to stay at a place in the French countryside with a large, semi-wild potager, a vegetable garden, which the people who lived there fed themselves from. They let weeds grow, didnโ€™t spray pesticides on anything, and they ate most of the food as close to raw as they could. During his stay, he called me and said that he never feltโ€ฆ

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Potato-Leek Soup Recipe

I donโ€™t think Iโ€™ve ever made a New Yearโ€™s resolution. Even if I did, I likely didnโ€™t have much success sticking with any of them, so I just donโ€™t bother with them anymore. Usually resolutions involve quickly-forgotten rules about eating better, losing weight, and saving money. (Which is probably why I never make them in the first place.) So I wouldnโ€™t place any bets thatโ€ฆ

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