not drinking poison in paris

The evening before our visits with newly-installed Anjou vigneron  Cédric Garreau and the rest of the Angevin clan back in January, my...

From L: Kenji Hodgson, Cedric Garreau, M, Mai Sato, Nicolas Bertin, J. Taken in Bertin's vineyards. After departing from La Dive...

Florence is the only place I've ever been pickpocketed. As a friend and I snacked on one of the support columns of the Ponte Santa ...

It's a travel truism that the more friends one travels with, the less one sees. Monuments, museums, and moments of local colour rush...

Florence, owing to its peerless artistic heritage of glorious renaissance treasures, is a good place to get suckered on industrial wine...

In the same way that many fine-dining waiters wish to be wizards whose assistants, the busser staff, do all actual plate-clearing, many ...

A good way for a writer to earn money is to cultivate a reputation for authority on a subject rich people like. Wine and food are quite...

The Native Companion has lately succeeded in dragging me to more museums. Each time in the ticket line I confront my reason for usually...

There would not, initially, seem to be much purpose in my writing anything at all about Procopio Angelo , the eponymous restaurant of ...

Natural wine enthusiasts are kind of like vegetarians: we know their preferences, but their reasons why diverge wildly. A few natural wi...

Some time after we stopped dating, my ex F moved to a really superb apartment just next to one of Paris' most beloved bistrots and s...

I might as well start off by explaining that La Pointe du Groin is an alternate spelling for La Pointe du Grouin , a rocky outcropping o...

The other day at lunchtime my colleague R and I announced to our high-pitched and highly amusing senior colleague L that we were going ...

Most comparisons of cities are offered as a way for the speaker - usually an inhabitant of the smaller or less lively of the two cities ...

I'm still alive. As of now I still intend to continue the blog. I'm sort of husbanding writerly resources at the moment, sketchi...

Septime le resto , its relative informality notwithstanding, is a destination restaurant. One needs to plan ahead - not to mention budg...