Unlikely Discoveries Department: the tea room, restaurant and courtyard terrace of Bonpoint, the chic clothes emporium for kiddies with well-healed parents. The official name is…
Confession time: for the last 25+ years I’ve lived in Paris and traveled the byways of France and Italy, tasting and writing about delicious food…
The highest honor bestowed by the Italian Republic may well be some kind of knighthood — Cavaliere del Lavoro is one — or an honorary…
Paris is a city of eternal returns. Today the giant annual agricultural fair — Le Salon de l’Agriculture — gets into swing at the Porte…
Serendipitous discovery department: a fascinating exhibition of photographs of Paris in the 1860s, taken by Charles Marville, with contemporary shots of the same streets, (presumably)…
Dateline: Paris, Boulevard St-Germain This morning at 10:30am Paris Time several seasoned journalists — at least one of them a hack and a ham —…
Oddments-and-curiosities-of-life department: my wife can live happily without chocolate, yet she knows more about chocolate than most human beings, and she is a remarkable tour…
My special valentine does not like chocolate. So the hundreds of Paris bakeries, pastry shops, chocolate shops and miscellaneous hawkers of cocoa-based delicacies do not…
A couple of snapshots of Paris the other night, by yours truly. Happily the so-called Genie de la Bastille — the winged sculpture atop the…
How much is the doggy in the window? These doggies are books — Food Wine Rome and Food Wine Burgundy! My wonderful agent, Alice Martell,…
Sun sun sun in Paris in February! Gorgeous day on the Place des Vosges, one of our favorite places in Paris. We like to take…
From the pen of delightful Raylene Burke: “Travelling and exploring Paris and its environs with Alison and David is like taking a wonderful walk with…