Archive for October, 2016
Autumn in Essoyes
…As always, the vendange brought new faces and a new bustling energy to the town for those 10 days. Rain or shine, cool, misty mornings, blazingly hot afternoons, students, gypsy families, and of course many townspeople pitched in to bring in the grapes…
Continue Reading October 23, 2016 at 6:54 pm Leave a comment
Storing Up Wood for the Winter–in Champagne
The first problem was that I knew basically none of the things one would need to know in order to get wood for the winter. Here is an almost verbatim transcript of the first conversation I had with a friend who was trying to help me figure it out…
Q & A with Harriet Welty Rochefort, Author of “Joie de Vivre” and other books about the French
The author of “Joie de Vivre” and “French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French” talks about misconceptions on both sides of the Atlantic, what she loves about the French (and about the U.S.) and her new novel…
Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road 