Miscellaneous

What’s Weird About France (and Soup)?

Soup—wouldn’t you think the country that gave you French onion, vichyssoise, soupe de poisson and other great meals in a bowl, would have you drooling in the soup aisle?

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Nice: the First Month

Before we left for Nice, I read somewhere (on the Internet so you know it’s true), that after your first 2-3 weeks living abroad, you wake up in a sweat and wonder what did I/we do?

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The Roast Chicken Chronicles Part Deux

Once we got the butchers’ schedule more or less figured out (the photos of their hours still inhabit my phone, just in case), we informally moved on to the second and more serious job–who has the best roast chicken?

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Omsom Krapow Dinner Starter

As much as I’ve written about Omsom, and cooked many delicious meals with their starters, I never tried the Krapow, a Thai “savory chili garlic sauce”.

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