Easter: rabbit, eggs, basket, bonnet, chocolate, chickadees and for me woolly sheep and lambs. I don’t want to offend anyone but I am not religious and therefore my associations are not religiouseither. However I do appreciate religious music and “All we like sheep” pops into my head when I think of Easter. Having sung Handel’s ...
Is breaking your traditions a good thing or a bad? Does it show adaptation and a willingness to embrace change or do we miss it like a part of us that has been broken off? For most of the last 10 years on New Years Eve my husband and I have reveled in our hotel ...
What do you take to a Christmas pool party that will not shrink like a violet in the chlorine air and which is small enough to lay out on a pool basin rim? Most participants are bringing champagne, juice, cookies, Lebkuchen (German gingerbread), chocolate Santas and other typical Christmas-y treats but I am always starving ...
I feel a particular affinity to Julia Child. I believe it has grown out of several roots: being French and American, having learned all about French Food at my Grandmaman’s knee both in my childhood summers and twice living with her outside of Paris for a year in the 1960’s, loving to cook and discover ...
On June 29th 1880 the French senate passed the law to declare the 14th of July a national holiday to commemorate French Independence Day called Bastille Day. It was named as such because it celebrates the storming of the Bastille, the famous prison, in 1789 during the French Revolution. The taking of the prison marked ...
Ever since reading Fiona Maclean’s post “Chocolate Ganache and Fennel Pollen Tart” I have been enchanted with the idea of using pollen in my cooking. Until then I didn’t even know that such an exotic ingredient existed! Pollen makes me think of bees, flowers, spring, buzzing, green, and delicious earthy smells – all thoughts that can immediately ...
Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us, The very clouds move on. Heinrich Heine, Book of Song Yes May has cometh! It brings flowers, blossoms, greenery, green grass, green leaves and green asparagus. Asparagus, a delicate, low calorie and beneficial spring vegetable, a perennial of the ...
“CHANGE is a process not an event”, says Barbara Johnson in her publication “Splashes of joy in the cesspool of life”. In my mind Food Revolution Day is an event to kick off a process. A process to teach and show adults and children where food comes from, how it is made, why we should ...
As a child growing up in France with my elderly French Grandmaman, I greatly enjoyed the time of l’apéritif, now commonly called l’apéro. On Sundays, my Grandmaman and I would meet up with her 3 great lady friends for the day. This involved bathing the day before, putting on your Sunday best, going to church, ...
Imagine you finally get to cook for long-lost dear friends and you only have a one time shot before they “disappear” again for a long-time. Sure you have remained in email and Facebook contact and know what their kids are doing and they know what your vacation was like – but what you can’t share ...