Let Me Count the Ways: St. Valentine’s Day 101 (Yes, There’s a French Connection)
Remember the old shoeboxes for valentines in your grade school classroom? How you’d decorate your box with all sorts of …
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SUGARPLUM VISIONS: Christmas Cookies
…visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. ~~Clement C. Moore~~ ” ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” Happy Holidays to all …
Bringing Home the Bacon … and the Onions and the Cheese: Tarte Flambée, Flammekueche, or Alsatian Pizza Bread
One cold, rainy day in October, I sat in front of a fireplace in a small weinstub, or bistro, in …
Who was Ginette Mathiot? And Why Should You Care?
Ginette Mathiot wrote books that bring up long-lost taste memories in France, much as Marcel Proust’s oft-quoted prattle about about …
RAMADAN KARIM — The Fast
(I wrote this several years ago and include it here as a tribute to the Moroccans I knew then and …
Bastille Days: Feasting and Fasting in a French Prison
July 14 is La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration), or Bastille Day. Louis XIV, known for his opulent meals at …
French Chefs Abroad: Alexis Soyer and His Irish Famine Soup Kitchen
It is to be regretted that men of science do not interest themselves more than they do on a subject …
Breadfruit: Blight of Captain Bligh
When Captain James Cook entrusted thirty-three-year-old William Bligh (at the time a Commanding Lieutenant) with the HM Armed Vessel Bounty …
Monkfish: A Little Love, French-Style
I first gazed on his ugly mug in French-influenced Morocco, more precisely at the fish market in Rabat. And like …
