I often get weird emails requesting I mention something-or-other on my blog. I rarely pay them any attention because I’m not interested. I don’t write this blog for money so there’s no need to pimp it out. But this guy…. this Damien…. this guy was different. He had something special. Here are the most important [...]
I don’t care why you come or how you got here…just glad you made it to The Paris Blog.
David Lebovitz worked for 13 years at Alice Water’s legendary Chez Panisse restaurant and was named one of the Top Five Pastry Chefs in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Chronicle. His writing has been featured in Bon Appétit, Chocolatier, Cooking Light, Food+Wine, Cook’s Illustrated, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times, People, Saveur, Sunset, and USA [...]
Next month The Paris Blog turns 5 years old. This little snapshot from our “Who’s On” traffic report shows me the blog is reaching exactly who I wanted it to.
A friend of mine had a health scare a few years ago. “I decided if the doctor told me it was terminal, I would move to Paris and eat myself to death.” Luckily, she recovered. But for some people, a terminal diagnosis is not a prerequisite for a trip to the City of Light led [...]
On a hot and humid night in July 2007, I made my first visit to Hidden Kitchen. The “underground supper club” was brand new and still buzzing from a write-up that had appeared on Chocolate & Zucchini. I had brought a new boyfriend and was trying to convince him that I was cool and cosmopolitan. [...]
Ladies and gents, I’m pleased to introduce you to my new baby —— Yelp France! Yelp is a website that connects people to great local businesses. Its purpose in life is to give people a platform to share their favorite (and not so favorite) addresses with those in their community. That means straight talking, no-nonsense, authentic [...]
Good news! The American Library in Paris, an expat membership institution, has just launched Browser, a blog covering expat subjects and literary news and events (and not just ones at the Library itself). An inaugural post announces an event worth planning for: Since the mid-1990s the Library has been fortunate to host the talented and [...]
The Paris Blog has hit a devilish milestone in the number of fans on its Facebook Page. (What, you haven’t joined yet?)
A reader who lives in the States, and is apparently more Francophile than even me, has sent in his photo and asked that we publish it. How could I say no? He looks so French with his fisherman’s sweater, hair matted from infrequent washing, mechant little mustache, and a tongue sticking out to either French [...]
