Paris, France — It is one of the most demanding of the culinary professions. Catering requires a mastery of taste, preparation and presentation all the while following a strict code of rules. […]
Cutting Edge Catering
The Enduring Eggs of Easter Time
Even the French supermarket chain Carrefour brought out its own Easter collection of whimsical springtime animals shaped like Easter eggs. Photo courtesy Carrefour. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette Paris, France — Easter […]
A Hobbit Happening
Paris, France — It is one of the best selling books of all time. First published in 1937 and with many million of copies sold world wide, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit or […]
A Glamorous Globe
Paris, France — One of the world’s best known globe makers was the Italian Franciscan friar and cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli who was commissioned to make globes for, among others, the Duke of […]
Going Grass Roots at Ground Control
Paris, France — It’s one of the more iconic urban renewal programs in the heart of the French capital just minutes from the Gare du Lyon train station and a short walk […]
A Royal Abbey, Roses and the Heritage of a Hermit
The Royal Abbey of Saint-Riquier in the Somme administrative department of what was once the province of Picardy is regarded as a jewel of Gothic architecture. Founded by a Frankish abbot and […]
Last Chance to See
Paris, France — It is one of the French capital’s most engaging cultural institutions: the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art). Currently located on the Left Bank […]
An Ancient Culinary Tradition Takes to the Airways
It is a bread made from the ancient wheat varieties of Einkorn and Emmer, the distant ancestors of modern wheat, ancient wheats that were first farmed in the Fertile Crescent where bread-making […]
Moving Landscapes by the Hand of Man
Paris, France — The devastating effects of phosphate extraction on the tiny island of Nauru. The litter from space exploration sprinkled throughout the great Sonoran desert of the American southwest. The rice […]
Critic’s Choice: The Dream-Like World of Tim Hailand
Jouy-en-Josas, France — Demi Moore as a tree. Dancer and choreographer Stephen Galloway emerges in a flurry of flora. The self-portrait of the artist in a row boat in Monet’s waterlily-filled pond. […]
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