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Avocado Mousse Recipe: Mousse a l’Avocat
Avocado Mousse
I normally don't associate avocados with French cooking, but when I was in France, I saw avocados used in salads, soups and as amuse-gueules.
This easy avocado recipe for avocado mousse makes an easy refreshing...
Virtual Tour of Paris: 7th arrondissement
“a carcass waiting to be fleshed out with freestone or brick, a funnel-shaped grill, a hole-riddled suppository”
— author Joris-Karl Huysmans (excerpted from “Protest Against the Tower of Monsieur Eiffel” published in Le Temps, February...
UK Michelin Guide 2014
The 15 new one stars include wilks, an unpretentious neighbourhood restaurant in Bristol, and Campagne, a contemporary Kilkenny restaurant.
In London, Lima is the first Peruvian restaurant to gain a star and highlights the increasing...
Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian): The Talking Cure
Arnaud Desplechin is one of the French cinema’s best-kept—but most highly regarded—secrets. He’s not an avant-garde director, but his challenging films (Esther Kahn, Rois et Reines, Un Conte de Noel) are firmly situated on...
BUZZ: Chateau de Berne, Les 3 Nagas & Les Vendanges de Montmartre
Minutes from Lorgues village, set in 1,500 acres of forest, 5000 olive trees, vineyards, at the end of a long and winding road, the 18th century Château de Berne, has been brought into the...
Virtual Tour of Paris: 6th arrondissement
“ . . . more and more frequently, people began visiting to see the Matisse paintings, and the Cézannes. Matisse brought people, everybody brought somebody, and they came at any time and it began...
Virtual Tour of Paris: 5th arrondissement
The 5th arrondissement is abuzz with tourists and students and shoppers. But there are a few pockets of calm where you can relax and recharge, and one where the famous now simply rest in...
Swamps to Kettles — How Paris got its Name
Myth or reality, where was Paris really born?
Maybe the books got it all wrong
Who would deny that Paris stands out today as one of the most historically and culturally attractive cities in the...
St. Cirq-Lapopie, the “Rose in the Night”
"It was in June 1950, as we rode by car… that I first saw Saint Cirq, blazing with Bengal Fire, like a rose in the night… It was love at first sight… Above any...
Virtual Tour of Paris: 4th arrondissement
In the 4th arrondissement our e-bus passes some of the most visited sites of the city and takes a peek at its inhabitants—from the ancient Parisii (the tribe that gave the city its name)...
Virtual Tour of Paris: 3rd arrondissement
The 3rd arrondissement brings stories of knights and kings and . . . um . . . well, Chinese wholesale shops.
3ème
Rich from the crusades, it was the Knights Templar who originally settled this neighborhood...
Le Dorcia: Photquai & If You Want to Get A-head Get a Panama Hat...
So, in the film American Psyco, the frustration of not getting a reservation led to an unfortunate incident involving a translucent raincoat and an axe, to the tune of "Hip To Be Square" by...