My friend Carol came to visit me last weekend.  She loves macaron, I mean loves them. In her small suitcase she brought about a hundred of them, I am not kidding. Carol cleaned out…

                        The differences between France and America are subtle. Take Mums and pumpkins for example. Mums a fall flower arrives in force in October. They spill out from the French floral shops…

                               Photo: Breakfast dishes. My Mother knows in the morning what she is going to make for dinner. At seven a.m., list in hand she is at the grocery store…

                Photo: At the French Market. As a child I was a picky eater. I could count the things I liked to eat on two hands. White bread, peanut butter but not crunchy, hamburgers plain,…

Flour, sugar, brown sugar, butter, eggs, chocolate chips, walnuts, vanilla, pinch of salt and baking powder…  The ingredients are usually something like that when making chocolate chip cookies.  In France chocolate chips are hard to find, unless you go to…

In France it always starts with food. Which you can buy on any street corner.  Buy a French baguette, a hunk of cheese, and a box of Medoc wine  and attach it to a moped.  Picnic a go-go. Beauty is…