Americans often complain about the deplorable state of television programming in the United States; in France, the paucity of interesting and informative shows is enough to make you want to swear off TV for good. For fans of Jeopardy, as well as lovers of crosswords, Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit, though, there are a couple [...]
Before anyone jumps to conclusions, we did not take a trip to Paris, Marseille, Nice, or even Avignon. The word “big,” we discover more and more, is a completely relative term and in this case “the big city” in this part of the Vaucluse means Carpentras, population 26,000. But, when you think about [...]
Renowned French chef Paul Bocuse owns, among other wide-ranging businesses, a high-priced, elegant restaurant in Collonges au Mont d’Or, just outside of Lyon. But in the introduction to one of his cookbooks, Bocuse dans votre cuisine (”Bocuse in Your Kitchen”), he describes some of the best meals he’s ever had as being the most [...]
