Category: Movable Feast
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The Golden Gem Apple
Take an apple caress it on your sleeve, until the…
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French Wine Tasting Lessons for Beginners
There are many things that say, French: The Eiffel Tower, a black beret, a baguette, Edith Piaf's music in the background, cheese, the words Oh La La… and if you put all those things together on a red checked…
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Delicious Decisions: A Wedding in Provence
Have you ever been to a tasting? I hadn't. Though I could make it my new job. What delicious decisions to make. Since we did not know of a wedding caterer and had no idea what quality nor…
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Licking my Lips in Lisbon
We were on Tram 28 which connects and passes through some of the most popular neighborhoods in Lisbon Martim Moniz, Campo Ourique, Graca, Alfama, Baixa, and Estrela. The trams and the hills at moments whisked me back to…
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The Sweet Feast Lisbon Offered
In Portuguese the word to eat is “comer”. Growing up my mother made a few Portuguese dishes but mostly they were desserts so the first thing we did when we arrived in Lisbon was to go to a bakery, and…
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Pain Perdu is Never Lost
Pain perdu or "lost bread" in French is never lost. I held the day-old baguette like a trophy won and flashed victory, "Pain perdu." In France a day old baguette is as hard as a brick, no additives…