Category: Movable Feast
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Provencal Salad
How to make French bread and tomato salad. In the land of baguettes, where a bakery is on every corner and bread is baked in a wood oven once and sometimes twice a day, where buying a baguette daily…
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How to Celebrate on a Diet
How to celebrate a diet. Well, that is not why I was invited to lunch. Alys and Hilde asked if I would like to join them at the La Brasserie du Corton in Cassis, friends, Cassis, lunch…
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Wild Weed Salad
My friend Annie use to make a weed salad. Not marijuana weed, but actually a salad made of weeds. She would gather the weeds from the local fields. Weeds. She eats them. She would tell me, "..they are good for…
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Pet Peeves
Pet Peeve… Soggy pasta, or the utter opposite of Al Dente. Few things get my goat so to say, and when it comes to getting my goat "pet peeves" soggy pasta is one of them, so is cracking…
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A Thing for Pasta
Asparagus, that elegant vegetable. Whenever I asked my family if they had a preference for dinner and before I could barely finish my sentence, they would cheer in unison, "PASTA!" As if they were the entire population of…
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Sunday Afternoon Banana Bread
On a crystal clear morning, with the most amazing blue sky in Paris, Chelsea ran fourteen miles as she is and has been preparing for a marathon this April. I met up with her after her run for lunch…