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Easter Lamb
What an Easter season. Yesterday as I walked during my allowable hour outside, I saw signs hung at windows with the word Hosanna and the drawing of a frond.…
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Easter Lamb
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Lamb with Mashed Potatoes, and the Best of 2018
I flew over mid-December to teach a couple of classes in Portland, which exhibited huge support (Merci, Portland) for the fine points of French cooking. Fiona flew in from her…
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Lamb with Mashed Potatoes, and the Best of 2018
Francis at work
A Behind the Scenes Photo Shoot
I've participated in many photo shoots, always as writer, there to make sure the food looks the way it is supposed to. For this latest, however, I was not just…
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A Behind the Scenes Photo Shoot
Curly peppers at t he Kadinlar Pazari , the women's market
Konya, Turkey – Rumi’s Delicious City
I arrived in Konya well after midnight, to participate in the Atesbaz-in Culture Cuisine Cultural Days (Atesbaz-in means "the person who plays with fire" ie. the cook) a conference devoted to the…
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Konya, Turkey – Rumi’s Delicious City
The A Team!
California Dreamin’
As I sit and look out the window at the sunny terrace, the sunny pool, the sunny green hills beyond that, for all the world, look like Umbria, I feel…
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California Dreamin’
Laughing over salt
Did We Have Fun?
Last night I conducted my first cooking class as part of my book tour for In a French Kitchen. The menu was chosen from the book; everyone "put their hands in…
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Did We Have Fun?