Culture Le Weekend, 11/18/22: Marcel Proust’s Exalted Madeleines and Win a Spring Trip to Paris! 🇫🇷 Proust was an asthmatic, a closeted homosexual and he was devoted to his mother.
Culture Le Weekend, 11/11/22: We Say Lemon Pie, They Say Tarte au Citron (It’s All About the Crust!) 🇫🇷 There’s something so comforting about the tidiness of a crust holding the magic of whatever you’ve nestled inside.
Culture Le Weekend, 11/4/22: Art in Small Bites & Love is a Beautiful Ashtray 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 I take in art like a hummingbird sips at my scarlet runner bean flowers in August.
Culture Le Weekend: Edith Wharton’s French Ghosts, Nightmares and Pumpkin Muffins 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 Ethan Frome was begun by Wharton in French in Paris as a French language exercise.
Culture Le Weekend, 10/21/22: Notre-Dame on Fire on Netflix and Mushroom Stew 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 At the start of the new French Netflix series, we see a young firefighter, played by Megan Northam, running through Paris streets....
Culture Le Weekend, 10/14/22: Women of Iran, A Year of Le Weekend & Molten Chocolate Cake 🇫🇷🇺🇦 Celebrating the courageous women of Iran and one year of Le Weekend.
Culture Le Weekend, 10/7/22: Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux and French #MeToo, 5 Years On 🇫🇷🇺🇦 Ernaux is the seventeenth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Since 1901. Only 17 women! Should we celebrate? Or be horrified?
Culture Le Weekend, 9/30/22: New Hemingway, Fall Running & a Cassoulet for All Seasons 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 A new trove of Hemingway’s writing was just found in a bar.
Culture Le Weekend, 9/23/22: Elizabeth Strout’s Lucy by the Sea, Tintin & an Apple Tarte 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 Novelist Elizabeth Strout is beloved in France.
Culture Le Weekend, 9/16/22: A Tomme by Any Other Name, Godard & French Lasagne 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 But it was the cheese that changed everything, the cheese that made him fall in love.
Culture Le Weekend, 9/9/22: Swimming Like a Deer, agnès b. & Hold Me Tight 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 I think of those deer every time I jump in the water now.
Culture Le Weekend, 9/2/22: Summer’s Last Gasp & Les Plaisirs Minuscules 🇫🇷🇺🇦 It will be plaisirs minuscules that we will remember and cherish through the long winter when we need a boost!
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