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A Taste of Paris: To Market! Avenue President Wilson

Market, Avenue du President Wilson, Paris 16th arrondissement: note happy native shoppers   When you hear a certain self-satisfied New Yorker (whose blatherings appear in…

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A Taste of Paris: Saturday on the Seine

This is how it starts: a Saturday on the Seine, on the car-free former Pompidou Expressway… early, while the bobos and partiers still sleep… We…

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A Taste of Paris: A Literary Cafe in the Luxembourg Garden

Autumn leaves spinning, horse chestnuts nesting on lawns and in hands–the Luxembourg Garden is definitely into fall mode. Fall is a good time for eating.…

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A Taste of Paris: Book Tour, USA, Oct/Nov 2017

I look forward to seeing you at one of my book events to celebrate the release of A Taste of Paris… more events and more…

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A Taste of Paris: The Best Coffee in Paris (is not French)

Just possibly–almost assuredly–the best coffee in Paris is imported, roasted, and served, sometimes at a ponderous pace but with great courtesy and passion, at La…

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A Taste of Paris: Life’s A Cafe Part One: La Fregate

  For a number of years now I've been outsourcing my office needs, meaning, in standard English, that I no longer rent an office, I…

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A Taste of Paris: Elections, Erections and Cafe de la Mairie

It's a steal! Will this crook be the next French president? Or will it be the charming neo-Nazi and Trump surrogate? By the time many…

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Paris is Also This: Beauty, Peace, Poetry, Brotherly and Sisterly and Unisex Love

In memory of the policeman killed and others wounded last night on the Champs-Elysees… Terror and demagoguery will not undo Paris, will not change Paris…

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A Taste of Paris: A Hungry Eye in Paris Cont.: Seine-sational Seine-side Expressway

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo and I don't always see eye to eye but on one thing we agree: get private cars out of Paris. The…

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A Taste of Paris: The Cherry and the Cake

The French version of "the icing on the cake" is "the cherry on the cake." A perfect spring day in Paris today, the flowering cherries…

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A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food: Soul Food in Paris

Soul food in Paris? Absolutely: Paris is good for the soul! (And it's not bad for the sole).     A Taste of Paris: A…

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A Taste of Paris: A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food

In bookstores everywhere on Sept. 26, 2017 but already available for pre-ordering (click on the image) Related posts: A Taste of Paris: A History of…

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