Author name: Susan Herrmann Loomis

I’m working on a project that involves finding the best of the best, food wise, in Paris. To that end, […]

The theme of the weekend was coffee, tea, and cakes in front of the fire with dear friends from Amsterdam.

Brrr! It’s winter again, what confusion. Just yesterday I noticed the catkins swinging from the hazelnut tree in my courtyard

Amidst the cookie baking, present making, ribbon curling, mulled wine drinking, friend and family embracing of Christmas is an immutable

The Christmas tree lights twinkle, the smell of spices perfumes the kitchen from yesterday’s baking, and a Christmas carol provides

When I arrived home from marvelous Maine, Louviers was brittle with frost, the house an ice-box. Now that things have

Where I live, lobster continues to be a luxury. They are trapped off the Cotentin peninsula, and they arrive at

I cannot stay away from this lovely place. Perhaps it’s the introduction to Hassidic reggae, the site of a bald