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What to read in the bath
Beating the August heat is a challenge in Paris and in Toronto. Sometimes the only solution is to divert oneself with a good book. Preferably in a cool bath. The windows of our neighbourhood bookshop almost always feature a book … Continue reading
The missing link
Angers. My first term at university in France. Breakfast with my roommate Anne Marie (still a close friend after all these years). She mixed coffee with scalded milk in a bowl, put butter and jam on a piece of baguette … Continue reading
A taste of France
Many years ago, a friend gave me a birthday present consisting of three small objects, with a card that read: “What every young woman needs: a car, a taste of France, and a chance at a million.” The car was … Continue reading
Posted in Paris flea markets, Paris food, Paris history, Paris popular culture, World War I
Tagged absinthe, anise, fennel, pastis, Paul Verlaine, Pernod, Ricard, tarragon
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They Sell Onions, Don’t They?
On a recent trip to London, we visited the Slightly Foxed Book Shop on Gloucester Road. We recommend it highly. One of the treasures Philippa acquired there was They Eat Horses Don’t They? The Truth About the French by Piu … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris history
Tagged Buffalo Dandy, Buffalo Lazy Randonneur Club, Claude Quimerech, European Ethnological Research Centre, Ian MacDougall, Jean Milin, Jean Saout, Johnny Onion, Onion Johnnies, Onion Johnny, Piu Marie Eatwell, Plouescat, Roscoff, Santec, Scottish Working People’s History Trust, Slightly Foxed, St Pol de Léon, Yves Rolland
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A Sardine Is Not Just a Sardine
I have always liked tinned sardines. When I was a young boy, I found they were the perfect food to take on a hike to Red Hill Creek, King’s Forest, or Albion Falls. Just insert the key, roll back the … Continue reading
Enough to make a cow laugh
New Year’s is a time of cleaning up and clearing out, and to that end I have unsubscribed from all kinds of newsletters and mass mailings to keep my head clear and my inbox manageable. But I’m keeping a few, … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris history, Paris popular culture
Tagged Benjamin Rabier, Beziers, Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF, Galerie Georges Petit, Gallica, Gillian Tindall, gruyère, La Revue Politique et Littéraire, La sardine francaise, La vache qui rit, laughing cow, Léon Bel, Les Ambassadeurs, Musee de l'illustration jeunesse, Ravitaillement en Viande Fraîche, Vachkyrie, Wachkyrie
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Mushrooms, manure, and the secret of French food
Recently, at The Astrolabe Gallery, a print and map store on Sparks Street in Ottawa, I chanced upon a page from the London Illustrated News, Dec. 4, 1869. Two woodcuts depicted “Mushroom Culture in France.” The “entrance to a mushroom … Continue reading
The chariot on the Champs-Elysées
For many people in Paris, owning a car is neither necessary nor desirable. Transit service is good and parking is difficult. But that means that when your groceries include, say, containers of milk or orange juice, bottles of wine or … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris markets, Paris shops
Tagged caddie, Champs Elysees, chariot, Monoprix, Montparnasse, Parc Monceau, Perigot, rue Raymond Losserand, sac à roulettes
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What a croque
It all started so innocently. I was going to write a blog about a simple and unremarkable café meal, the sort of thing that warms one up on a cold December day with a glass of vin chaud, and before … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris history
Tagged A Moveable Feast, boulevard de Capucines, Café Americain, chocolate and zucchini, Clémentine in the Kitchen, Clothide Dusoulier, Croque monsieur, Ernest Hemingway, french cookbooks, Gallica, Ginette Mathiot, Hole in the Wall, Je Sais Cuisiner, Julia Child, Larousse Gastronomique, Marcel Proust, Nigel Slater, restaurants, Samuel Chamberlain, Trou dans le mur
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Food, drink, and lodging in Paris postcards
In a sense, all postcards are a form of advertising. Some advertise the sender’s good fortune or superiority: “Hi. I’m here. You’re not.” Others advertise the attraction itself: Kozy Kabins in Niagara Falls, the highest rotating restaurant west of the … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris hotels, Paris postcards
Tagged Alexandre Legrand, Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Arthur Conan Doyle, Benedictine, Benedictine Liqueur, Bishop Maurice de Sully, Boulevard des Italiens, Café Anglais, Camille Pissarro, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, Fécamp, Ferris Wheel, Frédéric Delair, Hotel du Louvre, Hotel Régina, International Exposition of 1900, Julia Child, La Madeleine, La Tour d’Argent, Louvre des Antiquaires, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III, Place du Palais Royal, Quai de la Tournelle, Robespierre, Sherlock Holmes, Treaty of Amiens
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