Eating Around the Empire in a Day: The 1931 Paris International Colonial Exposition
To her sons who have extended the empire of her genius and made dear her name across the seas, France …
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Couscous in France: It’s a Long Story
To look at all the Maghrebi/North African restaurants in Paris, you might be tempted to think the food they serve …
Léon Isnard: Bringing the Cuisines of Africa to France
“It seems that the word couscous is a Gallic version of “rac keskes,” which means “crushed small.” ~ Leon Isnard …
An Ancient Mediterranean Taste: France’s Boutargue
The Egyptians who fled to Marseille from Egypt after the Napoleonic debacle there (1801) brought with them a hankering for …
The Lost Arabs of Marseille: Food, Family, and France
In his timely Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831 (2011), Ian Coller writes of the Arab …
