It’s easy to cozy into a routine living in France—visiting the same boulangerie, walking the same streets, and returning to favorite wine bars. I was inspired by this post on C’est Christine (and have been meaning to make a Paris bucket list for quite some time!) to draft up the things in Paris I haven’t done yet, and then make…
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I first moved to Paris six (!) years ago. And in those first five months that I was here, I suffered immensely from culture shock—that feeling when something that you’ve been dreaming of your entire life turns out to be less magic and more métro, boulot, dodo. Don’t get me wrong, I also experienced thrills of discovery and butterflies as…
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At the beginning of the year I declared this to be my year of magical eating (an idea borrowed from another Paris blogger named Anne). The goal was to be more intentional with my food and the products I was consuming. To taste and not just eat; to interact with the food as well as the company. All of my travels this year centered…
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There is no better way to travel than by taste. And as far from home as I am, this is the one recipe that can send me there, even once a year, just as Proust traveled to Combray through his cup of tea and madeleine. With one bite of this bread, I am instantly transported to the stairs my siblings and…
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The best things come in threes. In this case, three stars. Three Michelin stars, at the nearly-hidden L’Arpège restaurant on Rue de Varenne. Perhaps you know about it from Chef’s Table on Netflix? The latest season, based in France, opens with dramatic scenes of French chef Alain Passard—the master chef behind L’Arpège—walking through his gardens and feeling the terroir as his…
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