It’s All Maya!

Of course we couldn’t go to San Francisco and not head up to Sonoma and Napa Valley!  The weather wasn’t cooperating, but the  countryside is so beautiful there.  In any case, we had our minds set on drinking wine!  Years ago when I was living in Marin County, a friend and I use to head […]

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6 of us went to New York City.
8 of us flew to Texas.
10 of us traveled to Phoenix.
6 of us continued on to Las Vegas.
So when the decision was made to fly to San Francisco, you know it wasn’t going to be just Patrick and I getting on that plane!  Nope, there were eleven of […]

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Okay, so another person came up with the name, “Rude-nella”, describing Lunella’s restaurant in Little Italy, but the name is so appropriate when talking about the place, I just had to use it!
We had been walking all day, from the Statue of Liberty to the financial district, over to Ground Zero, Chinatown and finally making […]

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Busy, busy, busy!  Christmas parties, Ari’s birthday party and the Steelers’ game at my twin’s.  And what a game it was!  It looked like all was lost up until the final 3 seconds of the game!  Roethlisberger threw a 19 yard pass to Mike Wallace like a repeat of the catch Hines Ward made to […]

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About a year ago this time I was talking to a friend of mine and asking her the usual, how things were going, etc.  Our conversation went something like this:
Me:  So, what’s new?
Monique:  Oh Gérard came to see me today (her ex) and we were talking about how there are so many festivities honoring music, […]

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Chez Moi:
I don’t usually compare books when I do a book review of something I’ve read, but these two books have so many similarities, yet nothing in common, that I just had to write about both of them simultaneously.  (I know it’s an oxymoron, but it fits here perfectly.)
I first read Chez Moi by Agnès […]

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It’s the same old adage of which came first, the chicken or the egg!  Earlier this month I heard a tale from a friend of a friend.
Friend: My friend and her mom went to have lunch at Neiman-Marcus and they decided to have the “Neiman-Marcus Cookie” for dessert.  The cookie was so good that my […]

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All the food blogs on Paris seem to be talking about the Hidden Kitchen which is one of many underground private restaurants around the world.  The one that most Paris bloggers are writing about has been operating for just under two years by a couple from Seattle, Laura and Braden.
The idea is you cook an upscale 10 course […]

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Another weekend has passed and another wonderful experimental dinner by my French chef!  How long this is going to last all depends on how patient Patrick is going to be!  Or more precisely, how long it’s going to take me to stop jumping the gun!
Again I set a lovely table for another sumptuous meal.  The […]

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I asked Patrick a few days ago, “Shouldn’t we be back in Paris by now?” (We go back and forth every year.)  Two years ago when we took my mom we were already there by the middle of February.  I, of course, wanted mom to spend Springtime in Paris so she could fall in love […]

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