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Requiem for a Troublemaker (Chocolate Cake)

One of the first female State Senators of New Jersey, Alene Ammond passed away on June 4th. I’m a pretty private person. She was not. I...

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Paris. Is there any place in the world more dreamed of, more longed for, more romanticized? Hemingway claimed that if you’re lucky enough...

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I re-watched the end of Ratatouille last night, the movie that so wonderfully inspired so many to recreate a Thomas-Keller-cum-Remy-the-R...

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Places are not foreign, you are. You always will be. The imprint of your individual presence on a faraway land, no matter how hard you...

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"I'm living in the French countryside." I have no illusions about how romantic that sounds, how romantic that is. But a house this old,...

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When sharing my plans to come to France, the reaction was surprisingly formulaic. I'd be met with a rush of excitement, a pause, and then...