Of all the things one can love about Paris, it´s perhaps the closeness to the sea I adore most. The coast of Normandy being only one and a half hour away, a trip to the beach is a totally doable venture for a saturday afternoon. For someone like me who´s never lived anywhere near the ocean before, this continues to be truly fabulous: The sea, […]
“A cooked tomato is like a cooked oyster: ruined.” Andre Simon (1877-1970), ‘The Concise Encyclopedia of Gastronomy’ During summer, I never run out of tomatoes. I´ve had a crush on them, a coup de coeur as they say here, ever since I was a little girl. It was a hot summer day in the late […]
I wanted to make something special for our first Bastille day here in France, so I bought some lobsters last tuesday. Cooking them always fills me with exited anticipation, to say the least – in other words: the presence of living crustaceans in my kitchen makes me slightly nervous. Remember Annie Hall? Scenes like that […]
The weather has been warm and inviting during our first weeks here in Paris, making it easy to explore the possibilities of daily life: where to buy the best baguette, to find the butcher´s and the nearest supermarket, where to go for a walk or the nicest view over the city. Last sunday, we discovered a tiny, […]
deutsche Version Sometimes there´s nothing like a juicy steak with a beautiful, buttery Béarnaise sauce. But did you know that this culinary classic is rumored to be born out of a trivial mishap? The story dates back to the year 1837. In a restaurant named Le pavillion Henri IV, located in St. Germain-en-Laye near Paris, a celebration is being held on occasion […]
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