Getting Off Paris’ Beaten Path

As I mentioned in the prologue post about this Paris trip, one of the earlier decisions I made was to get out of my own Paris ruts by NOT staying in the St. Germain/Latin Quarter section on the Left Bank. I'm thrilled to my toes with that choice. Not that [...]

2020-02-05T19:15:33+00:00May 14th, 2013|Travel|

The Best of Paris’ Baguettes

It's not me making that decision -- it was a panel of illustrious judges who convened last month to sample over 150 entries for this year's Grand Prix de la Baguette de Tradition Française de la Ville de Paris. It was just delightful timing that the news of this year's winner came [...]

2020-02-05T19:19:13+00:00May 7th, 2013|Food and Drink, Travel|

Paris: The Other Side

A delightful oasis in Paris, Square du Temple. My first inclination when I started to plan this long-awaited, extended time in Paris was to narrow my apartment-searching to my old stomping grounds. The Left Bank. The 5th, 6th and 7th arrondissements. As noted in this earlier post, it's where [...]

2022-06-04T20:59:08+00:00May 3rd, 2013|Travel|

Paris

I spent a few minutes trying to come up with a more clever title for this post but figure it pretty much speaks for itself. Whether you've been there on your honeymoon or for a study-abroad term, if you backpacked-it in a hostel or lived it up at George V, even if [...]

2020-02-05T19:21:18+00:00April 24th, 2013|Memories, Travel|

A Most Magical Christmas

I didn't want to break the spell. When I left Seattle to go to cooking school in France, it was a major adventure, a big step into an unknown future, a dream come true. Belongings that I wasn't taking with me went into long-term storage, since this was to be an open-ended [...]

2020-02-05T19:36:27+00:00December 19th, 2012|Family and Friends, Memories, Travel|

Cooking Moroccan

It strikes me as interesting that I have my liberal arts education in Tacoma, Washington to thank for my introduction to North African cuisine. Indirectly, I suppose, but it was a University of Puget Sound winterim study program of a month in Paris that had me exploring the bustling, colorful [...]

2017-03-21T21:25:37+00:00September 11th, 2012|Cookbooks, Cooking at Home, Memories, Travel|
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