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I had not touched this cookbook in a while until last week. Sometimes some of my cookbooks can be left untouched on shelves for weeks. I just have too many, even if I know this is not paying them justice. Y’en a de trop ! One pile of books seems to always hide another pile, [...]

“Une bien cuite, s’il vous plaît !” (One well cooked, please!) Do you remember hearing these words while walking into a French bakery? This is pretty much a buzz sentence, a language you need to be able to talk to order your baguette à la boulangerie. Some people like their baguette to be well cooked, [...]

My mum used to make vegetable soups often. Not necessarily the fancy difficult ones, but the good-for-your-health kind of soups, full of nutrients and vitamins. “Mange ta soupe, ça fait grandir”, she used to tell my brother B. and me (eat your soup, you will grow taller). Vraiment ? (Really?) When I told P. about [...]

It was a regular weekend except that it was gorgeous outside. P. and I decided to go out for the day to walk and picnic on Plum island. Only an hour drive North of Boston, Plum island is a tiny paradise for anyone looking for a secluded spot away from the city. With magical natural [...]

Kiwi, Grapefruit and Crab Salad
P. told me “Mais ce n’est pas l’été” (it is not summer) when I brought the appetizer to the table, to which I had to inquire what he actually meant. “Comment cela ?”, I then said. “Well, isn’t this appetizer more a dish you would eat in summer?”, he responded. “Ah [...]

Qu’est-ce qui se prépare ?
(What is cooking?)
So many choices, don’t you think?
More on this later….

What would you say if I told you that my grand-mother used to make the best meringues? Probably that yours did as well, because we all have a sense that someone in our family or amongst our acquaintances makes “the best of something you have ever had”. For example, P. has an Irish uncle, a [...]

Monsieur Schneider is one of my parents’ oldest neighbors. Known in the village for his amazingly well-looked-after and immense garden, he is an old man by now. But I have always known him for the gorgeous-looking vegetables that he grows in his garden, which as a young girl, I always wanted to steal but never [...]

Il y a la mer…
(There is the sea…)

Et puis il y a les poissons…
(Then there is fish…)
Fish — Le poisson
Learning a language is a lifetime story. You can never get bored with it.
One of the most difficult things for me to remember how to translate well when it comes to food is any word in [...]

Before it gets too late and we witness a ground covered with inches of snow — if it actually really happens this year in view of the thermometer’s whims — this time in the season is simply perfect for walks taken outside to play with fallen leaves tossed around by the wind or walkers’ footsteps. [...]

And what a wonderful year it has been, full of so many discoveries!
Sorry for the short absence. I am currently traveling to a wonderful country from which I hope to bring you nice pictures and stories. But back to this special occasion for me.
In November 2005, I started a food blog, and one [...]

I am making it easy for you to guess. You will know where I went, won’t you? How can you not love these faces and colours?
More on my recent trip soon, promise!

I am physically back in Boston (from Peru indeed, very good guess!) and still need time to be really entirely present so that I can get back into cooking, visiting your blogs and writing the stories about my trip. No need to say that I cannot wait as I have so many pictures I want [...]