Christmas nightmares

And finally from this trip to Paris, a sight that perversely delighted both C and me. Draw your own conclusions.

Christmas in Paris

Paris is cold and damp in the fall, but I think it is more beautiful at this time of year than at any other time. The city is lit up with what seems like billions of little Christmas lights and displays, giving it a magical, almost unreal appearance and feel. There is a Christmas craft and…

Lyonnais food, Part 1: Le Marché

Lyon’s outdoor market is open everyday from around 8 AM until 1 PM. It is held on a stretch of one of the main roads along the Soâne River, and offers fresh produce as well as seafood, deli meats, rotisserie chickens, and bread. We stopped to admire an enormous pan of paella that was cooking…

La Boqueria

  In a perfect world, someone pays me to travel all over the world to visit markets, photograph them, shop and cook from them for large dinner parties of new friends, and wax poetic to anyone who will listen. That has not happened, so in the meantime I will simply seek out markets whenever I…