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 inventive [...]
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 [...]
