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Grapefruit Campari Sorbet

Coming from San Francisco, a place where there essentially arenโ€™t any seasons, itโ€™s been an interesting transition living in France, where each season has its own rhythm and distinct feeling. Winter, as you can imagine, is the least favorite season of the year and this past winter was particularly somber and dismal. Parisians refer to the dreary gray days of winter, and the tristesse thatโ€ฆ

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Le Pont de Brent

After my visit to the Vevey market with Chef Stรฉphane Dรฉcotterd, we headed back to Le Pont de Brent, his restaurant located above the lakeside Swiss town of Montreux. While he was laying out the fish for the day, which he had just sourced, I noticed the kitchen was unusually calm for pre-service and I didnโ€™t see anyone in the usual panic that happens inโ€ฆ

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Cranberry Sorbet

Every year at Christmas, I make the dessert. With a bakery on every corner in Paris, thereโ€™s not a lot of impetus for the locals to make a resplendent dessert for the traditional dinner. Itโ€™s not that people donโ€™t bake, but with the small city kitchens and all the other stuff that limits time around the holidays, itโ€™s just as simple to head to theโ€ฆ

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Fenocchio Ice Cream

Every time I go to Provence and the Cรดte dโ€™Azur, I keep remembering that I want to share Fenocchio ice cream with you. But Iโ€™m not all that good at sharing, when it comes to ice cream, so I hope youโ€™ll forgive me for keeping this all to myself for a while. But after tasting more than my share of their ice cream down inโ€ฆ

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Frozen Melon Margaritas

When I was in Mexico last year, after they were able to uncurl my iron-clad grip on the airport entrance door frame because I was having a hard time leaving all those warm, freshly made corn tortillas behind, on the walkway to the departure gate, I realized I had a few extra pesos jingling in my pocket. Thankfully aside from a lot of great Mexicanโ€ฆ

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Design*Sponge Video and Raspberry Sorbet Recipe

The fashionable team over at Design*Sponge came by to make a video with me here in Parisโ€ฆ I hit the market with Anne Ditmeyer of Prรชt ร  Voyager, who is part of the Design*Sponge creative team, to do a little shopping. You can watch the video here. (Plus we got a little lesson of how far a seller will go not to sell something toโ€ฆ

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le Week-end

I always seem to have the supreme misfortune to draw the letter W when playing Scrabble in French, as thereโ€™s barely one-quarter of a page in the French dictionary devoted to words that begin with that letter. People use โ€œWuโ€ for Chinese money; although I allow them, itโ€™s not in the French dictionary so Iโ€™m not sure thatโ€™s in the official rules. In spite ofโ€ฆ

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