Category: food
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This week I am…
…booking a ticket to any one of these cooler-than-cool swimming pools (#25–wow!) …learning a lot from these uber-British travel etiquette rules. …laughing over this hilarious dog grooming trend. Only in Japan. …applauding San Francisco on being the #1 city for … (answer). …wearing this as much as possible and pretending I’m French. …mulling over this thoughtful letter from…
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Paris: Cafe culture
Spending a few hours lolling around a Parisian cafe is the very essence of la vie française, but I think many Americans find the task somewhat daunting. Our cultural differences become very apparent at the cafe. Let me explain. Despite my secret longing to be reincarnated as a French woman, it still took me a few…
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This week I am…
…turning 30! Apparently I’m supposed to know all these things by now (or maybe not). …donating to this Kickstarter campaign for spill-proof wine glasses. …daydreaming of Paris through this uber-hip blog on women in their Parisian apartments. …walking more. Yikes. …reading this article on how a kiss at Cannes Film Festival put a U.S. journalist in an Irani…
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Simple summer recipe: Watermelon feta salad
Summertime is my season. It’s hard to explain how I know this, but I feel more alive in the summer than in any other season. Maybe its because I love sunbathing. Or swimming. Or maybe it’s because I have license to eat as much watermelon as I like in the summer. Right? The watermelon-feta salad is nothing…
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Wine tasting in Switzerland: Caves Ouvertes
About two months ago we tried to go wine tasting down the road from where we live–in the gorgeous vineyard towns of Dardagny, Satigny and Russin. But as we knocked on doors of cellars and peeked in windows of shops, we found no one home. Finally, we found someone working at one of the vineyards…
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This week I am…
…in Paris! Thanks to my husband’s work trip, I’ll be running around one of my favorite cities. …strolling the Champs Élysées armed with expert advice on avoiding buyer’s remorse. …mulling over this well-written article on how comedians have become public intellectuals. …loving this new law reducing food waste in France (how to apply the law in your home).…
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Simple summer recipe: Confetti pasta
What are you up to this weekend? We’re headed to Satigny for the annual opening of the vineyard season–cave ouvertes. Warm weather is forecasted and it promises to be a fun party… I always have a box of dried pasta on hand in case I need to throw together an easy dinner, but when the…
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Camping in Switzerland: The Bernese Oberland
We camped Saturday night under a waterfall just outside of Lauterbrunnen and it was one of the most incredible places I’ve ever pitched a tent. Although my husband would prefer to camp completely in the wild–to simply find a clearing somewhere–I asked him to reserve a space in an official campground since I was worried…
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Bern and hiking the Bernese Oberland
As we packed our bags for our weekend camping trip Thursday night, my husband got an email from his editor asking him to cover a press conference in Bern Friday afternoon. Since Switzerland’s capital city of Bern is about halfway between Geneva and Lauterbrunnen we decided to squeeze a little more in our backpacks and…
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This week I am…
…taking notes from this article on how to have a $1,000 day in Paris on just $100. …earmarking these recipes for spiked summer treats (tequila-lime sorbet?!) …reading this article on smart pills. No really. …using this handy guide on how to make his and hers steaks since we like them done differently. …making sure I never become one of these airplane traveler…
Paige Langton 