Prometheus Unbound: New Evidence on Humans’ Early Use of Fire
I woke up this morning fully intending to end my two weeks of silence on this blog – due to …
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Belleville, Paris, France: I
Belleville, the site of my upcoming study in France, filled with other worlds and other tongues, other ways and other …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Celestine: A Memory from French West Africa
Blending as they do into the green leaves of the red-flowering flamboyant trees above the crumbling mud brick wall, it’s hard to see the bottle-green chameleons. Dozens of these “ground lions,” with their red throats puffing in and out like bellows stoking a fire, perch in the crevices of the wall.
Cooking with Saint-Pierre (John Dory)
As it fell on a holy-day, And vpon an holy-tide-a, Iohn Dory bought him an ambling nag, To Paris for …
Cabbage and Black-Eyed Peas, Oh My! An Easy New Year’s Dish with a Long History
Yes, I know, you’re overwhelmed with preparations for Christmas. If you’re like me, you’re still trying to come up with …
