My Non-Parisian Life

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The Bacterial Miracle of Cheese

I love cheese and it’s a good thing too, because with 350 to 450 distinct varieties of cheese, you might say that France is synonymous...

A Butt Overflowing with Noodles

Imagine overhearing the following sentence in a bar: “Pierre’s butt is overflowing with noodles.” What is one to make of such a...

Where in the World is the USA?!?

French bureaucracy is the stuff of nightmares. Let’s face it: paperwork and waiting in line is never fun, but I maintain that French...

"Give us this day our daily bread." No, but really.

A French table without bread is incomplete… blasphemous… naked. All along the socioeconomic ladder, across lines of gender, age,...

Merde

France captures the imagination and the heart. She is a country of romance, of beautiful cathedrals and chateaux, of cafés and cheese and...