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Every day is Earth Day, right? Over the last few years, there has been a few food items that I’ve stopped buying at the store and opted for the homemade version from scratch. But don’t get me wrong, it had to be worth my while. I have a lot on my plate, so while there…
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So there’s this French saying. It was the title of a comedy. La vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille. Life is not a long tranquil river. Indeed. Sometimes, we are grateful for life’s non linear, unexpected turns. Sometimes we tell ourselves they happen for a reason. Sometimes hindsight shows us the good that came…
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I’ve made this analogy here before, but I often think of parenting as blindly planting wild seeds in a garden, and waiting to see how and when they will grow into something. I don’t think we teach our children so much as we are their model. The seeds contain all the complexity of our behavior,demeanor,…
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Sit down for a good dinner with a few French people, and by thetime the cheese course comes around, the conversation will often get eithercerebral or gastronomical. A little bit like this blog, which lately has reallyfelt like an ongoing and lovely cyber-meal with friends from all parts (youguys). And I have been kind of…
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Since we will be in Greece in a couple of days, I guess Pablo’s menu this week will consist of a lot of his favorite things: tomatoes, feta, cucumber, olives, lamb, squid, bread & olive oil… and possibly FIGS. To set us off on the right foot for this journey, our dear friend Minou invited us to…
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There is something both fascinating and somewhat irritating about seeing things come full circle. I grew up in a village in Normandy, France, where I spent minutes, hours and years devising plans on how to leave the land of cream and apples, go to a bigger city, a bigger country, elsewhere. And I eventually made it…
