I was walking down Park Avenue last week when I noticed that the Park Avenue Summer awning has been removed. It’s now Park Avenue Autumn. That’s when it hit me that’s it’s been an entire season that I’ve been in New York. A season filled with interviews, with being published (here! and here!), with reunions with old friends and late night wine…
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A Vegan Pop-up Brunch in Paris
As everyday passes, there seem to be more and more options for vegans popping up (literally, in this case) in Paris. (Some of my favorite spots can be found here.) It’s a far cry from the meat-and-cheese-and-sauce diet that French cuisine is famed for, but also shows how the city is evolving beyond tradition to embrace creativity. The Hood, a…
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Food Blogger Q&A: Clotilde Dusoulier
In October 2015, I went up to Montmartre to meet a local blogger for coffee. She was hiring an editorial assistant, and though my plate was already overflowing with commitments (not to mention I was merely a month in to grad school) I saw the opportunity and knew it would be a perfect match. Needless to say, I had no idea…
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Reborn in Paris, Returning to…
To really feel the whole emotion of this post, I invite you to play this playlist crafted by my superboss Clotilde as you read (I listened to it on repeat as I wrote and as it was being made). Three years ago today, I got my acceptance letter for TAPIF. I ran into my co-worker’s office, sob-whispering that I got…
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A Pastry Shop Time Machine
I am always amazed when I stumble upon remnants of Paris before the Revolution. My heart skips a little when I see the cross-hatched architecture in St. Paul, the flying buttresses on cathedrals across the city, and one particular pastry shop on rue Montorgueil. I’ve written about rue Montorgueil before—it’s also the home of G. Detou, where somehow I convinced…
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