French Canelés: are they New York’s new cult gâteau?
Céline Legros has introduced a new craze to New York: the French canelé. Find out what all the fuss is about...
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03, 2014
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02, 2014
A French cookbook straight from la ferme
We’ve all heard about cooking with the seasons and eating locally, and… at La Ruchotte it seems especially true.
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12, 2013
Set in France: top 3 new Francophile books
This is the time of year when I especially like to curl up with a book about France. Here are some recent favourites...
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10, 2013
French lessons
Who or what has taught you the most about France?
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09, 2013
Impressions of France in Norway
What French influences have you noticed beyond France?
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08, 2013
In search of lost time: discover France’s secret wonders
Each day I buy little cakes of fresh, wet goat cheese from a farm just down the road. The cheese is bland but the more it dries the firmer and stronger in taste it becomes.
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07, 2013
En vacances: my favorite French vacation spots
I would walk into the village for breakfast and drink my morning coffee on a restaurant terrace with views of the Bay of St. Tropez. I spent days hiking through olive groves or sunning myself at the beach at Ramatuelle. At night, it was dinner alfresco in the gathering dark. It was magic.
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05, 2013
Secret spots for French flâneurs: Paris from above
Every city on earth is made for walking, but some are better for it than others. On the top of my list of places to explore à pied is Paris, of course. This is especially true when I walk “in the sky,” almost above the rooftops, along the re-purposed elevated railway tracks by the Promenade Plantée.
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04, 2013
Le petit-déj à la française: a walk along Paris’ rue Cler
The rue Cler, in the 7th arrondissement, is a rue piétonne, a cobble-stoned pedestrian walkway. Here, you can amble leisurely looking into shop windows.
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03, 2013
Paris in Portugal – the French pastry explosion
If ten years ago there was scarcely a French pâtisserie in Lisbon, now numerous French-connected eating spots are open for business in the Portuguese capital.
