I?d already heard of ?tamarind paste? plenty of times.? Until this week, though, I wouldn?t have been able to tell you exactly what it was, or even where to find it. Some exotic spice, no?? The one that giddily finds its way into Indian and Thai...

I love big projects, especially cooking projects- big messy ones where you have long cleaning sessions afterward. I, however, like most, don?t have endless hours each evening to spend concocting unknown dishes (nor do I always have the time to trek...

As I mentioned in my posts about bourru and bernache, tradition has it that you eat roasted chestnuts with these young ?wines? that show their faces only in the autumn. There are two words for chestnut in French: marron and ch?taigne. While we don?t...

It all started with the bourru wine I talked about in this post. Thanks to my sister, last weekend we got the chance to visit a seventh-generation, family-owned vineyard in Cour-Cheverny, a small rural town near Blois in the Loire Valley.? After...

“MacDo,” as it’s often called here in France, is up against the Louvre. Can’t help sharing this “feather ruffling” NPR article on the controversial subject of McDonald’s opening in one of the most celebrated museums in the world. Anyone who knows me...