The Flexitarian Cook

Our family is a Judeo-Christian, Franco-American cultural blend. In practical terms, it means that we celebrate Jewish and/or Christian holidays (whether celebrated here or in France) as an excuse to bring family and friends together. We enjoy the warmth and tradition associated with these get-togethers, but we do not necessarily stick to the letter of [...]

I don’t particularly enjoy the New York Time’s Fashion & Style section, for a variety of reasons (one of them being that I don’t care much about the next ‘in’ thing, as my closet will testify), but when I saw the headline for “a dish that’s always in fashion,” I obviously had to check it [...]

“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Rick certainly drowned his bitterness in a fair amount of gin in Casablanca. This fabulous Bogart movie, mostly set in the coastal Moroccan town of the same name during WWII, tells the story of Rick and the beautiful [...]