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Pierre! You were, like, so robbed last night on Star Academy. You rock…and the people who voted you off are complètement nul…
January 2008 archives - Page 2 of 2
Ten Tips For Making Caramel
Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream If you think making caramel is difficult, it isn’t. In fact, when you made your toast this morning, half-asleep, you caramelized something! Enjoying a cup of coffee made from freshly roasted beans, baking a cake or a batch of oatmeal cookies, grilling tofu, and chugging a beer are some of the other benefits we gain from caramelization. I’ll be doing…
Menu For Hope Winner Announced, and More…
The results are in! The winners of this year’s Menu For Hope IV fundraiser have been announced over at Chez Pim. Head over and see if your name is on the list…the long list…of winners. (I didn’t win lunch at Arpege, but if the winner wants to take me, I can certainly free up some time and pencil it in on my calendar.) This year,…
Beaufort d’Ete
When I was in Méribel avoiding the steep slopes waiting in line at the cheese coopérative, I wasn’t alone: the joint was seeing more action than all those gasp-inducing ski runs. And just about every person ordered a nice hunk of Beaufort. And since they were in front of me in line, being France, of course each person had to have a 5 minute conference…
Monday Night Pizza
Every other week I’m forced to leave my modest little apartment because my housecleaner comes. I split since it’s pretty small and there simply isn’t room for the two of us to co-exist. So I leave and let her do her thing, whatever it is. Oddly, it seems to take her an inordinately long time to clean it. A neighbor once told me she said…
Trop Mignon!
I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit ga-ga over anything miniature. And when it’s miniature Paris pastries? I can barely resist… These are super-tiny replicas of some of the desserts and pastries from Pierre Hermé. I love the little details…they are just too cute—trop mignons! You can order them here, and there’s even a contest to win a set as well. (Thanks to…
Paris Airport Transfers: Charles de Gaulle/Roissy
Here’s a list of the various ways for visitors to get to and from the city of Paris from Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG), where a majority of international flights arrive and depart from. (Note that this post was updated in 2016.) Some modes of transit listed also go to Orly airport, where many domestic flights leave and arrive from. Charles de Gaulle airport (also called…
Meribel
For the holidays this year, I decided to take up a friend’s offer to visit their family in Méribel, a village way high up in the French alps. As you can see, it’s a spectacular place. And I’m not just talking ‘gorgeous sunsets’ or ‘charmingly quaint’ spectacular. I mean, Méribel was mind-blowingly, insanely hallucinante. Seriously, I wasn’t prepared for the awesome beauty of it all….
