Hunger’s Fearsome Power: The Body and Soul of Vincent van Gogh
(For more about France and artists, see “Food for Art’s Sake: eating with the Impressionists.” Ask people if they’ve heard …
Monthly Archives: August 2011
The Man Who …
… in a way … holds the future of French cuisine in the palm of his hand, French Agricultural Secretary …
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Me, Etc.
Dear readers of Gherkins & Tomatoes /Cornichons & Tomates, Soon I will embark on a great adventure, doing research on …
La fête de l’huître, in Riec-sur-Belon, Brittany
Alas, we’ve just missed La fête de l’huître, a popular festival that takes place at Riec-sur-Belon, Brittany at the end of …
And to Think it all Started with a French Cookbook: Forty Years of Chez Panisse
Alice Waters often said that Elizabeth David’s French Provincial Cooking started the whole thing, meaning Chez Panisse the restaurant. And of …
Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part III
Once settled into their bungalow overlooking Stanley Pool in Brazzaville, the Vassals faced the problem of hiring household help, especially …
Family Reunions: The Real and the Ideal
As Tolstoy wrote, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” and that is …
Famine in Somalia: Why are Food Writers Not Talking about the Black Horse?
“When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, ‘Come!’ I looked, and there before …
Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part II
Like many writers of her era, Gabrielle M. Vassal tended not to be very complimentary of Africans in Life in …
Vivre en l’Outre-Mer, or, The Trials of Living in French Congo ca. 1923: Part I
When the French government appointed Dr. Joseph Vassal, Englishwoman’s Gabrielle Vassal’s French husband, Head of Health Services for Equatorial French …
