Paris is a city that serves up one food revelation after another, so it’s not surprising that we try to recreate our gastronomic memories in-between visits. If you need help keeping those remembrances alive, these cookbooks will take your tastebuds back to your happy place … Tasting Paris: 100 Recipes to Eat Like a […]
Paris Markets
Eight Pretty (& Easy) Ways to Parisfy your Place
It has been a while between posts … When I’ve not been dreaming about Paris, I’ve been trying to keep my mind off the fact that we can still only get to Paris in our dreams by doing what we’ve all been doing. Baking. Reading. And focussing on home renovations. Not that we’ve been doing […]
Paris Gift Guide (or, Ten Ways to Parisfy your Life)
I don’t know about you, but the combination of not being able to travel to Paris along with the occasional home lockdown this year has meant I’ve tried more than ever to bring Paris into my private world. That has meant reading so much that I’ve had to tweak my glasses script, eating likely more […]
A Cherry Lover’s Guide to Paris
Cherries have a long and juicy history in Paris, going right back to the Ancient Roman era. After conquering the future City of Light in 52BC, those high-living Romans imported fancy new architecture, customs, fashions and food. Markets began to sell luscious orchard fruits, with cherries — which the Romans had brought back from Asia […]