“Risotto”, of course, means it’s made with rice. But “charred wheat stew” doesn’t sound as appetizing as it actually is. So with the creative culinary expression invokable by quotation marks, I’ll allying this recipe wi...
It’s fresh artichoke season and I’m finding them piled up at my local market, practically tumbling off the stands. Last week, I stood there, putting one after the other in my market basket, where I took them home to admire th...
Talbott Prix/quality ratio = 9.097.0 Le 6 Paul Bert6 Rue Paul Bert in the 11th, (Metro: Faidherbe-Chaligny)T: 01.43.79.14.32Closed Saturday night, Sundays and Monday77 E for two
Talbott Prix/quality ratio = 8.996.5 La Verre Mouta...
This year in Paris, a late, damp and often overcast Spring has been pushing and pulling my appetite in all different directions. To be sure, I've eating as much French grown asparagus--both green and white, as I can get my hands on, but ...
Monday-Tuesday in A Nous Paris, Jerome Berger gave 3/5 dots to Es, 91, rue de Grenelle in the 7th, 01.45.51.25.74, closed Sundays and Mondays, with unique menus at 45 (for lunch) 65 and 85 E at dinner, serving items such as onion soup, t...
Can we all agree to stop apologizing for rhubarb? No one apologizes for recipes that call for things like squid, marshmallow-flavored vodka, and green peppers. In fact, some times those things are actually celebrated rather than reviled....
We returned to Les Tablettes de Jean-Louis Nomicos with the parents of a chef we know and when pere tried the amuse of a lemon gel bottom, a creamy middle, fennel and a tomato sauce on top, he, three hours off a plane said the likes of "...
A friend who’s been living here quite long time once wondered aloud to me, why Parisians sandwich-makers weren’t more creative. I never really thought about it; because I buy sandwiches so infrequently, I’m really happy to have a simple,...
Two shows at the Pinacotheque of Paris are musts if you are a devotee of art deco. The first, a survey of objects created during the period has dazzling moments but the second of works by its "queen" Tamara de Lempicka is shocking...
5.75 Goust d'Enrico Bernardo, 10 rue Volney in the 2nd, 01.40.15.20.30, closed Sundays and Mondays, has garnered rave reviews, especially in cyberspace with one post entitled "Run don't walk."&...
