“For readers interested in early encounters between European and Arabic culture, An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi’s Visit to France (1826–1831) provides an alluring …
In celebration of the 2012 French elections … “. . . your best bet for understanding the French would be …
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, …
Do you associate ducks, along with snails and frogs, with traditional French cuisine? If so, you’re hardly alone. I do, …
Leslie Page Moch, author of Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe Since 1650 (1992, Indiana U. Press), has written another …
One of the best things about owning a lot of books is that I tend to forget what I have. …
The ocean there, it’s infinite, a place where horizon and water meet like a seam in a dress, a little …
Taboo: A custom prohibiting or restricting a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing. One …
“Life is hard (On vit mal). Everyone grows thinner. A kilo of butter costs one thousand francs. A kilo of …
I love this picture of a snail. Like many mollusks, snails seem to have been eaten in substantial quantities by …
