The 25th annual all-the-ice-cream-you-can-eat-for-only-$7 event known as the Scooper Bowl is taking place this week at Government Center (aka City Hall Plaza).
It’s a fund raising event for the caring and dedicated people commited to fighting cancer at The Jimmy Fund and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (These organizations and the people who work and volunteer […]
I’m so excited to be in Boston this Spring since I got to be here to meet the Chocolate & Zucchini Blogger, Clotilde Dusoulier at The French Library!
Clotilde talked about her life (both in California and Paris), her blog, and the process of writing and publishing a cookbook.
She is very passionate about food and gave […]
I recently discovered a great French recipe for monkfish that I’d like to share.
It looks very time-consuming but it’s actually very simple to prepare!
I usually look up the Americanized versions of French recipes since all my measuring spoons and cups are from the US (French recipes are written in grams), but for some reason when […]
I can’t say that I’m a huge popcorn fan.
However, I was very sad when, on my first trip to a Dijon movie theatre, I realised that there was no concession stand selling buckets of freshly-popped buttered popcorn.
There’s just something about sharing a big, greasy tub of popcorn in the dark.
One time last […]
While media reports show that France is on the brink of a civil war, I sit and write about my uneventful weekend.
All is quiet as usual in Dijon, and except for some increased police activity in the streets, you would never suspect anything is wrong.
We took advantage of […]
This past weekend I visited the restaurant of David Zuddas , a young, Burgundy chef whose cooking has been making him famous around the world.
So famous, in fact, that he was recently invited to Japan, along with several other French chefs, for a 10-day workshop in Japanese cooking techniques.
The restaurant, L’Auberge de la […]
You know the idea of the canary in the coal mine?
Well, in France the grape vineyards are protected in a very similar way using not a canary, but a fruit instead.
La pêche de vigne (peach of the vine) is a peach that is grown right in the vineyards.
The idea is that because it is […]
