Whether you are celebrating today religiously or secularly, Easter is just as important to the French as it is to Americans; large family gatherings, a beautiful meal and egg hunts for all my friends! And chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate!!
Read MoreOn a rainy day in February, with sights set on Shire Farms (an easy 45-minute drive in my 2007 Honda Pilot) I embarked on the last stop of my “buy local, eat local” journey. As the scenery turned from shopping centers to small farms, I thought about the preceding weeks – well, months and years, I suppose – that had brought me so eagerly to the Tate family’s farm.
Read More"I propose you ... how you Americans call it - Bar-B-Que at my house next Saturday, oui?" So, on a sunny evening in June, at 7:30 pm, my husband and 2 culinary school friends of mine arrived at a quaint, two-story house just outside of St. Etienne, about a 45-minute drive outside of Lyon. Happy and excited, but not quite prepared for the culinary adventure that lay before us ...
Read More“The eggs don’t taste like eggs and the mayonnaise doesn’t taste ANYTHING like ANYTHING! And don’t even get me started on the produce. HOW am I supposed to know what is in season? Did you know I bought a bunch of berries, thinking, ‘it’s summer!’ only to find out that they were flown all the way from South America and tasted precisely tasteless!?! This is both criminal and unacceptable! I am taking the children and we are getting on the next flight back to France!”
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