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My new refrigerator has an ice maker. After living in Paris for close to ten years, I’ve kind of gotten used to not having ice-on-demand. And when out and about, I’m now used to being served drinks with just one puny ice-cube bobbing sadly on the surface of a tepid drink. So now, when I go back to the states, I’m always a little overwhelmed…

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French vs. American Refrigerators

Maybe I’ve been looking at too many appliances lately for my new kitchen, trying to decide on the right one. But during my search, I’m trying to figure out what the difference between a double-door “French-door” refrigerator is… …and a double-door réfrigerateur américain. Read more about my kitchen renovation here…  

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Pear-Fennel Soup

I just learned a few more words to add to my French vocabulary while in the throes of remodeling this week. I already wrote about the five or six words in French for sink. And I finally got the difference between a mitigeur and a robinet (a mitigeur has one knob “mixes” the water, and a robinet has two knobs). Fortunately the word is the…

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