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The 37 Steps
It’s January, and the papers are full of recommended diets to deal with the extra pounds we all gained over Christmas. Oh, phooey. I’ve got a great book on French food that is making me hungry just reading about it … Continue reading
French advertising postcards (I’ll drink to that)
With our flat only steps away from the Garden of the Champs Elysées near Avenue Gabriel, it was inevitable that we would meet. How could I resist colour so wonderfully lurid in a science-fiction/absinthe sort of way? My eyes didn’t … Continue reading
Learning French at Monoprix
When French is not your first language, every visit to a French supermarket is like walking into a three-dimensional visual dictionary. Even though we have bilingual labelling here in Canada, we still learn new vocabulary each time we go shopping … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris shops
Tagged Graphic design, Havas City, Le relooking, Marketing, Monoprix, Packaging, Visual identity
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Cheap eats
The very first time we went to Paris as a couple, we took along a book called Cheap Eats in Paris by Sandra Gustafson. This was in the days before the Internet and iPhones made restaurant recommendations easy to find, … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food
Tagged C.R.O.U.S., Centre Régional des Oeuvres Universitaires et Scolaires, Cheap Eats in Paris, Cheap Sleeps in Paris, commensality, congregate dining, CROUS, Malakoff, Morgan Spurlock, Parc des Buttes Chaumont, Sandra Gustafson, Sudent cafeterias in Paris, Super Size Me, tripe à la mode de Caen, workingmen’s café
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Leeks Vinaigrette
I have my favourite French food writers, but among my best-loved cookbooks are those by Canadian food writer Lucy Waverman and the English Nigel Slater. Recently, I came across the following words by Slater that got me thinking: Sourness in … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris markets
Tagged Alberto Herráiz, Anne Willan, Banyuls vinegar, Beauvau market, Editions de l'Epure, La Varenne, Laura Calder, leeks vinaigrette, Maille, Martin Pouret, Molly Wizenberg, Montorgueil market, mustard, Nigel Slater, Orleans, Restaurant Fogon, sherry vinegar, vinegar
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Bringing home a taste of Paris
Remember that old grade-school assignment, “What did you do on your summer vacation?” The mind tends to go blank. Similarly, when the customs officer at the airport us, “What did you buy in Paris?” our minds go blank. What did … Continue reading
A Rudolf-free Noel
We’ve been asked many times why we decided to spend Christmas in Paris this year, and we have all kinds of answers. “We didn’t want to do another turkey.” “We thought it would be fun to spend Christmas just the … Continue reading
Keeping warm in a wintry Paris
Last week snow was falling, snow on snow, in Paris. The international press (when it hits the Toronto papers you know it is Major News) even reported that the Eiffel Tower was temporarily closed because of it. Unimaginable! Well, actually, … Continue reading
Paris piquant
I’m going to swim against the current here (the Salon du Chocolat is, after all, coming up at the end of October) and state that if you are the sort of person who goes to Paris merely for the boulangeries, … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food
Tagged Amora, Banyuls vinegar, cornichons, Delouis, Dijon mustard, Ducros, Edmond Fallot, Goumanyat, Grande Epicerie de Paris, Izrael, Maille, Meaux mustard, Pommery, Saveur magazine, shallots, Thiercelin
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A tomato grows in Bercy
On a tiny side street in the 3rd arrondissement near the market known as Les Enfants Rouges (named for a former orphanage where the children wore red jackets), we stumbled across a tiny garden, divided into even tinier plots, filled … Continue reading
Posted in Paris food, Paris gardens
Tagged allotment gardens, apiculture, beekeeping, community gardens, food gardens, jardins partages, Montmartre, potager, vineyards
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