Category: Movable Feast
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After a Long Hard Day of Shopping
This is what I have to put up with after the soldes (sales). Desserts. Lots of them. So sad, so hard. Such choices one has to face. Life is difficult in Rennes. I don't know how I do it.…
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French Food Talk
In France there is a great deal of talk about food. Simply food. Everyday food. Food food. There isn't a day that goes by that the topic of food doesn't come up. Food, unlike politics or religion is a safe…
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Forgot the Fortune Cookies and the Smoked Salmon
The party began at seven-thirty, the table was set, the food prepared, the fireplace warm, everyone showed up, the oldest was Annie (91) and the youngest was my friend's Melanie's baby Matis (two months old). Between, serving…
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Soul Food
Soul Food: Is something so subtle you do not know you have tasted it until far after the first bite. My friend Ruth invited eighteen people over for lunch in Lacoste: Three of them babies, one sculptor, one chef from…
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Ice Cream with Benjamin
Yesterday, Benjamin, a friend came to visit. The day was a magnificent-unbutton-your coat type-of winter-day. After lunch we went out for an ice-cream. The flavors included: Cassis – Black Current Menthe – Mint Framboise – Raspberry Noix de Coco –…
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Christmas In France
Christmas in France. French creche / santons. "Around late mid December most French homes put up a creche or a nativity scene, which has more importance than the Christmas tree. The creche is a collection of little harden…