Listening and Harmonizing
My Paris Classes are 15% off until mid-February. Take advantage of this very special offer and sign up now! The other night I caught T-Bone Burnett on the Colbert Late Show and felt as if I’d heard truth for the first time. “If you want to know what’s good about the United States, listen to […]
Roast Chicken French Style Oh La La
There is hardly a dish more significantly French than roast chicken. It’s a universal favorite at home, in the restaurant, at the market. For us, a Saturday market lunch often includes roast chicken that I buy from a farmer who roasts them “sur place,”. It’s hot when I buy it, it’s still hot when I turn […]
Work on the Apartment
My Paris Classes are 15% off until mid-February. Take advantage of this very special offer and sign up now! The days are getting longer and today, tiny birds were tweeting throughout the city which is normally a sign of spring. This is impossible, of course. Galettes des Rois are still on pastry shelves, and the […]
From the Shores of Broken Bow to La Bastille
Bonne Année and Bonne Santé for 2025! The year made it, and we will too! To celebrate, I’m offering a special discount of 15% on classes if you sign up before February 14, 2025. Join me in my new Paris cooking studio, where we will make the absolute most of the season to prepare mouth-watering […]
2025 Class Schedule is up!
My schedule of cooking classes for 2025 is on the website. I will be offering them in my new cooking studio and I cannot wait!!! As I watch the studio come to life, I am already there with you, creating dishes with gorgeous ingredients from the market around the corner! Please, visit the site, find […]
Chambres de Bonne
My thoughts lately have been about chambres de bonne, those rooms in the rooftops of the Haussmanien buildings that line the streets of Paris. As I cycle through the city, in neighborhoods I once lived in, I remember with fondness being an occupant. Everything about Paris was exotic to me when I first moved here […]
French Cuisine Anchors the Soul
If ever a person feels untethered, confused, isolated, gob-smacked or uprooted, a palliative is available: come to France and read a menu. As the world changes and governments, borders, countries, opinions and beliefs swirl like oil on water, there is always oeuf mayonnaise. And confit. Quiches crowd patisserie shelves while café tables are populated with […]
Still Packing
You will forgive my silence, I do hope, as I continue to pack and remove myself and my family from our house. It’s a process that is leading me to comprehend the true meaning of the word overwhelm, an odd double-word I didn’t really understand until I looked it up. It turns out that whelm […]
Moving Meals
I’m in the process of moving out of my house of thirty years, which involves, among other things, battling with packing tape that always wants to corkscrew (what is it about packing tape??), numbering boxes quickly before I forget what is inside, and any number of other details that are too boring to detail. You […]
France and Its Amazing Stuff
I grew up going to junk and antique shops with my mother, first in the English countryside where we lived, then in the U.S. As we entered the dark, sometimes dank shops, treasures always awaited. My mother had a fine eye, and we would fill the trunk of the car with everything from a stack […]
