FRENCH POSTCARDS FROM THE PAST: BEYOND PROVENCE
Part Two of Two Parts This is the second of two posts inspired by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts exhibition [...]
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POSTCARDS FROM FRANCE: PROVENCE AND THE CÔTE D’AZUR
Part One of Two Parts “Postcards from France” was inspired by the current exhibition at the Museum [...]
RACLETTE: THE BEST MEAL YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
It is 12 degrees outside as I write this post. The wind is howling and the ground is covered with several [...]
“WHERE TO GO IN 2013?” THE NEW YORK TIMES LISTS MARSEILLE AS # 2 DESTINATION
View of Le Vieux Port in Marseille Photo: David Scott Allen [...]
WHAT ARE ALL THOSE FRENCH CHILDREN DOING UNDER THE TABLE?
All across France today, on January 6th, parents are asking the youngest member of the family to sit [...]
BONNE ANNÉE, MES AMIS! QUELLES SONT VOS RÉSOLUTIONS POUR LA NOUVELLE ANNÉE?
It doesn’t matter where you were when 2012 rolled into 2013 or how you welcomed the New Year–quietly [...]
PRESIDENT HOLLANDE REINFORCES FRENCH CONNECTION TO AFRICA WHILE, HERE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, ANOTHER CONNECTION TO AFRICA TAKES PLACE
The Modern Trobador is back at the keyboard after a brief hiatus to work on a photography exhibition in [...]
PÉTANQUE GOES WELL WITH PASTIS
We played pétanque, drank pastis, and spoke a little French last weekend. The only sign that we were in [...]
ROSÉ, WHITE, AND BLUE ON BASTILLE DAY
Yesterday was Bastille Day. I know I should have been thinking red, white and blue—thick swaths of each color—as I arranged our small French Tricolors around the dinner table, listened to French CDs, chopped fennel, onion and parsley for our soupe de poisons aux [...]
THE STEINS COLLECT: AN EXHIBITION OF MATISSE, PICASSO, AND CEZANNE
We had dinner with friends in Manhattan a few weeks ago. The discussion naturally gravitated to what we were doing for the weekend. Somewhere between the antipasti platter and my ragu alla Bolognese with fresh tagliatelle, I mentioned that we were going to see the New American Wing at the Metropolitan. Suddenly, our friend Mary Bartos, a native New Yorker and art aficionado when not running her Upper East Side boutique Pan American Phoenix, sprang out of her chair, saying something about Gertrude Stein. She was so excited that I couldn’t understand.. [...]
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