Le Weekend Le Weekend, 5/26/23: The French Cantine for Dinner and Channeling Tina Turner 🇫🇷 Tina Turner’s raw voice embodied a moving mélange of hope, pain, joy, and anger and could flip a dull or angsty moment.
Le Weekend Le Weekend: Poems of the Soul and Gender Identity in Lyon 🇫🇷 Was Janmot sending an SOS into the future about the subtleties of love and acceptance?
Le Weekend Le Weekend: Magical Ethiopian Chickpeas in Paris and A French Spring Menu for the U.S. 🇫🇷 Ethiopian shiro wat in Paris for dinner and poor man's asparagus in the U.S. for lunch.
Culture Le Weekend, 5/5/23: Life-Changing Mashed Potatoes in Paris and Desperately Seeking Suzanne au Bain at the Louvre 🇫🇷 Reader, if I could have, I would have gotten onto that plate of mashed potatoes and rolled around in them as I ate them.
Culture Le Weekend, 4/14/23: Flying to Paris, Trash Barricades, 8 Centuries of French Food and Telling Salads 🇫🇷 How does any country shift away from a global capitalistic system?
Culture Le Weekend, 4/7/23: Marie Antoinette’s secret books and not-so-secret sex life 🇫🇷 Marie Antoinette is a victim of over 200 years of misogyny.
Culture Le Weekend, 3/31/23: The Price of Water and Protest in France 🇫🇷 The concerns over water in France are mounting.
Culture Le Weekend, 3/24/23: So far, Macron regrets rien as the world waits and listens 🇫🇷 These days, when Johnny Hallyday sings his version of "Non, je ne regret rien," I imagine Macron dancing out of Elysée Palace lip-syncing.
Culture Le Weekend, 3/17/23: Macron on the ropes, trash in Paris and riots in Lyon 🇫🇷 Macron wants the French to adapt and modernize.
Culture Le Weekend, 3/10/23: March sunlight, new French movies & chicken fricassée 🇫🇷 I love seeing that one brave daffodil peek its head up, snow and mud be damned. Let is shine, let it shine.
Culture Le Weekend, 3/3/23: Going Bobo in Paris, Macron in Angola & Other Stories🇫🇷 Bobos say “Namaste” when they part ways; they say Keen-Wah, instead of Kee-NO-AH, and they like oat milk cortados and artisan bread
Culture Le Weekend, 2/24/23: PFAS in France, Paris in Spring & a Vibrant Green Soufflé 🇫🇷 After reading that article, I found myself thinking about the French notion of purity in cooking.