Food Seminar Blog

Gâteau?  Usually less complicated than one’s relationship with time.  The student of literature might think of Proust’s madeleine, the journey on which this petit gâteau takes the narrator of A la recherche du temps perdu [...]

Ingesting vinegar-soaked sorrel or medicinal lemon syrup may or may not be of much help in times of plague, whereas “Le courage, le sang-froid, la frugalité, sont les meilleurs préservatifs"— this proposal is found on page 330 of [...]

What might catch your eye at the marketplace?  A load of grapes being taken from or hoisted onto a harvester’s back?  A pickpocket?  Someone’s grocery basket despite the snowstorm?  The shopper over there?  That child [...]