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Settling in to Paris: Making friends with the barman

About 3 months after I arrived in Paris, and after a multitude of visits to my favourite cafes and bars, hoping desperately that I would one day become like one of the Parisians and be greeted warmly by the barman, I was finally recognised by the barman at Au Petit Fer du Cheval.

I cant tell [...]

Liver and fat and guts – delicious!

I went to Nice to visit Eve and Fred and the beautiful baby Tina a couple of weeks ago.

While I was there Fred pulled out some jars and containers of his Dad’s confit de carnard (duck confit, or preserved duck), foie gras (duck or goose liver thats fatty and engorged due to overfeeding the bird) [...]

Paris: Disneyland brought to life?

Loving this description by David Lebovitz, a famous food writer/blogger living here in Paris:

http://www.davidlebovitz.com

“It’s funny, because some people get the impression that that I don’t like where I live. Which is kind of strange, because I don’t understand why anyone would think that I’d live somewhere where there was a dearth of clothes dryers if [...]