Whether you’re celebrating New Year’s Eve on the Champs Elysees in Paris, or with a small group of friends chez toi, if you’ve planned it right, chances are you’re going to wake up with one heck of a gueule de bois (hangover) come Friday morning. What better way to Frenchify your New Year than with a Bloody Mary? Bet [...]
Apparently Jim Morrison isn’t the only American-bred cultural icon buried in Pere Lachaise. A friend emailed me this photo he took in the cemetery yesterday with the caption, “Pauvre Pepe!”
An enormous and ancient bus station near the Place de la Nation is due to be renovated shortly, but in the meantime the RATP public transport company have decided to open the doors to the public for a giant (garage sale) for one weekend only. Alongside the traditional moth eaten furniture and cracked crockery, you will find [...]
This flyer was stuck on the windshield of every car on the block over the weekend and it’s got me wondering what exactly makes this car wash American? They only take gas guzzlers? Your car gets washed by a couple of cheerleaders? The customer is always right? Without a car, I don’t really know what [...]
Le Labo Shop is a specialized concept store for the scientifically inclined, but this laboratory is more akin to Jonathan Adler than Dr. Frankenstein. The inventions and experiments of French-American scientist David Edwards (who also happens to be Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Harvard), bring science to street-level. The shop’s chicly plexiglassed design belies a warm [...]
Cloying.
That’s the word that comes to my mind when I see a tray of macarons. Cloying. Not delicious or elegant or French. Why do so many Americans and Japanese think “le macaron” is theParisian dessert? I’m not sure about the Japanese, but I know where Americans — especially American women — get that idea: from [...]
The shops on rue Caulaincourt, a street that snakes from the 9th arrondissement to one of the toniest sections of 18th, houses some of the most charming owner-run shops in the city. Between La Cave Caulaincourt, which features the obscure Delahaie champagnes (the best value on bubbly, IMHO), and Par Ici Les Fromages, the cheese [...]
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Back when I was in scouts, we learned how to make a sit-upon, tie a bow hitch, and make a campfire. The scouts in Paris are focused on urban survival skills such as how to fold a Metro ticket into a jumping frog. With the help of a guest blogger, we provide instructions on this [...]
The premise of this ‘poetry’ is a text message. Originally, I thought it was Hawaiian or Tongan. It is the way cool French teenagers write to each other on their phones. It is phonetic, so not orthographically correct, but rather, how all of these phrases sound in French. Here they are in French and then [...]
