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…

When I arrived in France I didn’t speak a word of French. Well, I spoke three words maybe five, humble pie was my constant buddy, observing in silence my new vehicle and re-decorating was how I stayed focus during dinner…

French Pastries and I are intimate friends. There is nothing untouched between us. Bakeries in France are the pearly gates to heaven! When I arrived in France 19 years ago…I tasted a pastry called Kouign Aman; which is a teaspoon…