September 2008 Archive
C&Z turns 5!C&Z's 5th Anniversary Party!
Croatia Highlights
Roasted Eggplant and Goat's Milk Yogurt Dip
Twelve Hours in Paris
September 30, 2008
C&Z's 5th Anniversary Party!
Chocolate & Zucchini turned five yesterday, and because every five-year-old in the world deserves a birthday party, I would like to invite you to a celebratory get-together in Paris. It will be held on Wednesday, October 8th, from 7pm till 9pm, at Bocata, a cosy tapas bar in my neighborhood, located at 31 rue Milton, Paris 9ème. Drinks and homema...
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September 29, 2008
C&Z turns 5!
Today marks the fifth anniversary of Chocolate & Zucchini -- and, I might add, the first anniversary of its French version. My first impulse was to comment on the fact that time flies, it seems like only yesterday, or something to that effect, but the truth is, I find it so extraordinarily difficult to remember what my life was like before I star...
September 24, 2008
Twelve Hours in Paris
My friend Adam has just had what I think is a brilliant idea of a meme, named Twelve Hours in Dot Dot Dot: if you had only twelve hours left to spend in your home city/town/village/oasis, what would you do with them? Because I lived abroad for a while, I have, on several occasions, spent twelve semi-final hours in Paris, and I admit they usually...
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September 22, 2008
Roasted Eggplant and Goat's Milk Yogurt Dip
When I recovered my kitchen after seven weeks (seven! weeks!) of renovation chaos -- and this was just to redo the bathroom, mind you -- the very first thing I made was a yogurt cake, to fortify us through our next mission: the meticulous cleaning of, well, the entire contents of our apartment, which we had ill-protected from the dust storm. (Nev...
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September 15, 2008
Croatia Highlights
My body has been back from our Croatian getaway for a few days, but my spirit is still very much there, on a deserted pebble beach, reading in the late afternoon light, twiddling my toes, and examining the possibility of going back in for one last dip. My mind refuses to believe that, in the morning, we will not be feeding part of our breakfast ...
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