Miscellaneous

Searching With and Without AI (Artificial Intelligence)

by Anne Maxfield
March 18, 2024March 17, 2024

Does AI stand for artificial intelligence or abysmal information? Maybe the latter if a recent search for lamb chop recipes using AI was any indication.

10 Things That are Different in France/Nice

by Anne Maxfield
January 29, 2024January 29, 2024

Here are 10 things that are different in France, or at least my part of France. You probably wouldn’t notice them if you were just here on vacation but when you start to spend more time…

Closed, Fermé, Fermature, 16 Ways to Be Closed in France

by Anne Maxfield
January 22, 2024January 23, 2024

Closed. Fermé. How can it be closed? We made a reservation. Reserved in French is often meaningless. What is meaningful–there are as many ways to say “closed” as there are holidays.

10 Ideas for 2024

by Anne Maxfield
January 1, 2024January 1, 2024

Ideas for 2024 aka New Year’s resolutions was not how this originally started out. A while ago I was jotting (can you jot on a computer?) some kitchen/blog/personal ideas to work on for the fall.