not drinking poison in paris

In keeping with the series' theme of split personalities (or "parallel identities," as Lynch has described them), with Twin P...

No, I haven't been to the restaurant upstairs. The friendly American couple (C and his wife E) I met outside informed me there was a th...

In honor of the lamentably hilarious death of owner of the Segway company, who piloted his self-balancing scooter off a cliff, I thought I...

The other Monday I found myself back at Quedubon in the 19eme. Partly because my first meal there earlier this month was brilliantly enjoy...

In keeping with this blog's near-constant coverage of cru Beaujolais, I'd like to bid farewell to  La Cave de l'Insolite 's...

I really dig the market stands who present nothing but mushrooms and their necessary culinary accompaniments: spring onions, fresh bay, thy...

There ought to be a term - possibly Italian? - for the relief a frustrated professional experiences upon entering an environment where he o...

Image swiped from regmedia.co.uk.  Reading the NYTimes last night, I was bemused to discover that iPad's are being employed in certa...

Image swiped from lastfm.com. Even the most celebrated grapes of the Loire - Sauvignon by a mile, with an honorable mention to Chenin, ...

In a perfect world - one with no shortage of material, and natural wine available everywhere - I would decline to post anything about Au No...

I'd been hearing great things about La Gazzetta for ages. Finally went there with my folks the other night. My folks are getting on in...

Image swiped from sunnysidenyc.com. Over at the Paris Review blog , I notice that Parisian literary critic Nelly Kaprielian went to int...

My friends here in Paris are mostly all aware by now that I've finally just this year twenty years too late begun watching Twin Peaks ....

Update: 23/10/2013: I've just heard Le Dirigeable has closed. Bummer.  Gilles Bénard, owner of another great restaurant, Quedubon...

Image swiped from bc.edu. Last night on a surprise invitation from my visiting friend J I attended the re-opening night of the newly re...

Image swiped from wildernessclassroom.com. Many of the most innovative and fascinating vignerons working in France right now conduct ser...