Although I’m trying to make it less-so, it’s rare that I go out to lunch with friends. People tend to think that everybody in Paris sits around all day, eating dainty macarons and sipping a coffee at the corner café watching the world go by, while you’re all working away. But most of us are swamped like everybody else (including you), hurdling toward deadlines, waiting…
Okay, show of hands – who likes guacamole more than I do? Guacamole is one of my favorite things, and nobody is happier than I am when I make it in Paris. French people like guacamole too, and you’ll see it all sorts of guises, including frozen at the chain-store, Picard. In French, often the last part of a word isn’t pronounced, so guacamole is…
Luis Rendón is my new favorite person in Paris. And the guy who makes the tortillas is my second favorite (I suppose if I got his name, he might be the first.) But it’s Luis behind the great Mexican fare at Candelaria, a narrow slip of a place in the upper Marais that serves authentic Mexican food. Lately there’s a new openness, a willingness to…
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