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Some Thoughts on French Cuisine

French cuisine is, once again, a popular topic of discussion these days. Actually, anything controversial about France seems to foster a lot of heated debates. On one side are the folks decrying French-bashing, complaining that the French are unfairly picked on. Then there are the others who eat up books about how superior the French are, because they are better at parenting, they miraculously stayโ€ฆ

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Chocolate-Prune Cake

A while back, there was a spate of books about how to โ€˜sneakโ€™ ingredients that are โ€˜healthyโ€™ into food for your kids, to trick them into eating better. (Raymond Sokolov wrote an excellent rebuttal to that.) And recently there have been a few books written about how kids in France eat, and behave, better than their counterparts elsewhere. I canโ€™t really comment on them in-depthโ€ฆ

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West Country Girl

[UPDATE: As of early summer 2017, West Country Girl has closed.] Thereโ€™s a new girl (and guy) in town. And she owns a small crรชperie which is one of my favorite little addresses in Paris and worth a visit, in spite what some might feel is a relatively obscure address. To me, though, itโ€™s not all that obscure because Iโ€™ve forged a pretty clear pathโ€ฆ

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Where to Get the Best Crepes In Paris

One of the best, and best value meals, in Paris are crรชpes. Fortunately, theyโ€™re everywhere, in restaurants, cafรฉs, and even on the streets. If youโ€™re looking for street crรชpes, youโ€™ll find many clustered in the area around theย Montparnasse train station. (The area around rue de Montparnasse and Boulevard Edgar Quinet are where most of the crรชperies are.) Since the trains departing and arriving from thatโ€ฆ

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