Paris, France — Snakes and mermaids, dragonflies and panthers. crowns of peacock feathers. A colorful and dream-filled exhibition is unfolding at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris. These are shamanistic […]
An Air of Arborescence
Sète, France —This is a journey into a secret forest. A forest of brightly colored, at times darkly colored, trees. These are trees rendered in a fashion that hovers between the figurative […]
Downtown New York in Uptown Paris
Paris, France — Enter into a 5-story private mansion on the Avenue Matignon, one of the French capital’s gallery rows, to discover a part of the iconic 1980s New York art scene. […]
A Discovery of Dazzling Drawings
Paris, France — Every year in March the rarely seen world of drawings unfolds when the French capital becomes the Drawing Capital of the World. For they are fragile things, drawings, and […]
Made in France: Chocolate Care from Bernard Cassière
Paris, France — Most people eat chocolate for Easter. But it also turns out that chocolate (read dark chocolate here), filled with iron, magnesium, flavonols, zinc and copper, is excellent at reducing […]
Made in France: The Joy of Jam
Orange jam made with Washington navel oranges from the house of Maison Perrotte. Photo courtesy Maison Perrotte. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette Jam has been with us since practically the dawn of […]
Moments in Time: Vulcain Goes Green Time
A great way to ring in spring is with Vulcain’s 1970s retro chronograph in an alluring shade of green. It is a rather captivating green, deep and bright all at once. The […]
Sumptuous Sète: on and in the Sea
It all begins with an almost island, an island-like peninsula stretching out into the Mediterranean Sea from France. Sète is a small city with a village-like atmosphere on the western side of […]
Moments in Time: Louis Pion’s Pink Time
From the Louis Pion Adrienne Collection. Photos courtesy Louis Pion. Handout via The Gourmet Gazette Moments in Time: Louis Pion’s Pink Time The house of Louis Pion released last January some new […]
A Gourmet Gazette Fine Wine Find: More Great Wines from the Great State of New York
We recently had the good fortune at The Gourmet Gazette to taste some New York State wines: a red from the Lake Erie region, a rosé from the Finger Lakes and a […]