Category: Movable Feast
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Marie Antoinette: Did She Have a Thing for Coffee?
I am in Vienna. Coffee is not my thing. Merisi, my Austrian friend who writes a blog about coffee houses (amongst other things) in Vienna… So it makes sense, that the moment I arrived we went to Demel's, one of…
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Terminus Nord Paris
Terminus Nord fame restaurant bistro since 1928. In front of the gare du Nord train station. Full of wonderful posters of a time gone by. Autumn theme mosaique floor, enourmous floral arrangements, black tie waiters with long white aprons. I…
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French Dining Lesson
I've noticed something recently about dining in France. You see, I like to pride myself by saying, "I am observant. I notice little, the most unimportant details when many do not." This is not a favorable quality to…
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… Like a Flower in a Vase
Thick rich hot chocolate. When the hot chocolate pot came out with the spoon standing straight on like a flower in a vase, I pinched myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming. Drinking it was impossible, so…
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The Edible Weed
I brought in the over stuffed pink plastic bag of weeds that I had pulled up from my walk. Feeling like Santa Claus I beamed as I plunked it down on Annie's lap. She giggled believing that the…
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Some Smoke Weed, Others Eat it
2011 Wasn't that yesterday? I am beginning to think that when I close my eyes a whole century goes by, and then I wake up to today. Odd. Anyway in 2011 I wrote a post about Annie and her weed…