Category: Movable Feast
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Brocante Home in the Kitchen
Brocante home it starts in the kitchen: Linens, jars, baskets, plates, silverware, cups, pots, lids, bowls, knives, cutting board… Endless practical beauty that serves with grace and perfection over a hundred years later. A Creil jam pot, ironstone that…
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Admiring Cupcakes
Out of the blue, early in the evening the doorbell rang. Sacha opened the door to find the young (Thirteen? Fifteen?) neighbor girl standing there with a tray full of beautifully decorated cupcakes. From upstairs I could hear snippets of…
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Name One of Your Favorite Dinner Moments
Last night a few friends gathered at our home for dinner: Philippe our friend who makes paella, dances salsa and teases me ruthlessly about how my dishes are not as old as I say they are, and…
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Walking Around Paris to Celebrate French Husband’s Birthday: The Worse Meal EVER
Yesterday was French Husband's birthday. Sacha, Chelsea, Alice and Mr. Espresso joined us for a day of hanging out. All was well, until dinner… let's just say that if Paris had a horrible place to eat, one that you…