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From Culture to Cooking: Discovering Life in France

Archive for June, 2009

Soon-to-be Kitchen

Monday, June 29th, 2009

The first thing we did Saturday morning was measure our soon-to-be kitchen.
Five feet by nine feet may not sound like much, but it feels enormous compared to our current cuisine.? The room still smells of fresh paint and rings with the sound of empty space.? As with many unfurnished apartments in Paris, ours comes [...]

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Caves, Castles and…Asparagus (Part 2)

Friday, June 26th, 2009

This is the second in a series of posts on our recent trip to the Loire Valley.
The first one was about the cave we slept in.? In the next two posts, I?ll be talking about castles.
Part 2: Leave your guidebook at home

Our travel guides on France have started getting tattered- we tend [...]

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Caves, Castles and…Asparagus

Friday, June 19th, 2009

This is the first in a series of posts on our recent trip to the Loire Valley.
We never stick to the beaten track when we travel and always try to find some of the ?hidden secrets? of the place we?re visiting.? Read along to see some of what we discovered: where we stayed, what [...]

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