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Two Great Tastes?
Clotilde Dusoulier has been one of this website's longest and most devoted readers, though she does put forth the hope that Eating Well Cheaply will be revived at some point (much as I enjoyed the site while I did it, I currently prefer being employed with little time to cook than unemployed on a strict culinary budget). After reading this blog and a few others, she has launched her own website about her passion for food: Chocolate & Zucchini. She leads an enviable life: a well-traveled French woman who lives in Paris with her boyfriend. Reading her posts leaves me wistful for my favorite European city, and they keep me coming back for more.
And what does the name mean? Well, it's there on her website if you want to look it up yourself.
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Where's Amy?
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Monet's Palate
One of the highlights of my first trip to France was going to Giverny to visit Monet's home and gardens. It's a nice little country day trip from Paris and a must see for anyone who is a fan of Impressionist painting. Monet's home is a magical...
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The Great Book Of Chocolate: Book
Chocolate the exhibition developed by The Field Museum in Chicago has arrived in San Francisco. To the California Academy of Sciences to be exact. This is a great show for kids, with bites of science, history, archeology, sociology and lore. But to be...
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More Food Blogs
The wonderful thing about surfing food web sites is you get to be an armchair traveller. There are many places I would love to go and visiting certain sites, blogs in particular, gives me a window into those places and what life there, especially culinary...
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A Meal Observed
Many consider Paris's Taillevent to be the premier example of classic French cuisine. It is more than a restaurant; it is an institution. It's the kind of place Thomas Keller dreams of building: he told Anthony Bourdain in A Cook's Tour ,...
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