We went to Orléans last weekend to visit the hometown of one of our friends here and we had a très lovely time, taking in the sights and enjoying the first truly warm spring weekend. We toured some châteaux, which dot the Loire Valley like raisins in a pain aux raisins. The first château we [...]
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Orléans and the Loire Valley
Posted in La France on April 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Le Fooding
Posted in La France on April 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The New Yorker’s got an article about a new French food movement called “Le Fooding.” The group’s aim: dethrone the three-star Michelin guide and bring spontaneity and feeling to French cooking. Adam Gopnik tries to decode the movement and find out what it’s really about (with some of his usual preoccupations: he always seems to [...]
T.G.I.M.
Posted in La France on February 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the many small perks that go with being an assistante maternelle is the ability to greet Monday like an old friend, not a dreaded foe. (Remember, it was truant schoolgirl Brenda Ann Spencer who didn’t like Mondays; stay-at-home Bob Geldof was just the messenger.) Here in the F, I look forward to Monday [...]
Annals of Things Seen on the Parisian Street: Scenes with Dogs
Posted in La France, Worth 1,000 Words on February 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So the other day Josephine and her father were taking a stroll to Parc Montsouris and they saw up ahead of them on the Allée Samuel Beckett a woman walking with four dogs on leashes while simultaneously pushing a baby carriage. Tadhg said to Josephine, “It would be especially hilarious if, when we walk past, [...]
Au revoir janvier; thanks for all your galettes
Posted in Deliciousness, La France on January 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »
In January, the French celebrate the end of the holiday season with a special and très delicieuse dessert called la Galette des Rois. Traditionally, this Kings’ Cake is supposed to be eaten on the day of the Epiphany to fete the tardy arrival of the three kings. However, it seems like the cake is eaten [...]
Cher Serge
Posted in La France on January 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
There’s a film out in France right now about Serge Gainsbourg called “Vie Héroique”… It’s an interpretation of the singer’s life and legend, à la “I’m Not There,” the Bob Dylan film. The tagline reads: “Avant le mythe, il y avait l’homme…” (Unlike “I’m Not There,” unfortunately, Cate Blanchett was not given the opportunity to [...]
Exercising the French way
Posted in La France on January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Getting involved with the bureaucracy takes the place of exercise. Every French man and woman is engaged in a constant entanglement with one ministry or another and I’ve come to realize that these entanglements are what take the place of going to a gym where people actually work out. Three or four days a week [...]
