Events Archive

March 31, 2008

Chocolat & Zucchini @ La Cocotte

On Thursday, April 10, starting from 6pm, we shall celebrate the release of Chocolat & Zucchini, the French version of my cookbook, beautifully published by Marabout. This booksigning event will be held at the adorable cookbook store La Cocotte in Paris; drinks and nibbles will be provided. (See larger-sized invitation.) La Cocotte / map it! ...

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December 12, 2005

Pastries for Hope

Image courtesy of Heidi Swanson For the second time now, Pim has put on her fundraiser hat and enrolled us food bloggers to help: in this new Menu for Hope campaign, she is organizing a virtual raffle to raise money for the earthquake victims in Northern India and Pakistan, who are still in dire need of help. The funds will be collected by Unicef...

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October 21, 2005

C&Z's Second Birthday Party: a Recap

Many many thanks to those of you who attended the second C&Z birthday party on Wednesday night! The party was held at L'Homme Tranquille in the 18th, and fifty of us managed to fit in the rather small room. It looked a little ambitious at first, and as guests were pouring in, apéritifs being frantically served, it seemed like we would have to st...

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October 10, 2005

C&Z's Second Birthday Party!

C&Z turned two ten days ago, and just like last year I wanted to throw a little party to mark the occasion, celebrate all the fabulous things it has brought me, and give Paris readers a chance to meet. So! Mark your calendars: the second annual C&Z party will be held on Wednesday, October 19th at L'Homme Tranquille, a small neighborhood restauran...

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September 2, 2005

Reminder! WBW13: Like Wine For Chocolate

As previously announced, I will be hosting the 13th edition of Wine Blogging Wednesday on September 7th, with the theme Like Wine For Chocolate. So! You have just five days to bake a luscious smooth chocolate cake, pick a delicious wine to complement magnify enhance it, and write all about it! More details can be found here, and don't forget to...

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June 3, 2005

Un Sandwich pour le Dessert

[A Sandwich for Dessert] "Un Sandwich pour le Dessert" is a project I worked on for Fraîch'Attitude, a Parisian gallery that specializes in Eat Art. Eat Art is an offshoot of ephemeral art that uses food as its primary material: some of the exhibitions are actually edible and are meant to disappear into the visitors’ stomachs, to be recrea...

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May 26, 2005

Salon Saveurs, Spring 2005

Last Saturday I attended the Salon Saveurs, a food show focusing on (mostly French) artisanal products, where producers come to talk about and sell their products, most of them offering samples. Long-time readers may remember about my visit to last year's Spring edition, during which I first met a few C&Z readers who have now become good friend...

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February 22, 2005

2005 Independant Food Festival: "Baking Sugar with the Most Personality"

Today is the 1st annual edition of the Independant Food Festival and Awards and I am honored to be a member of the jury. The truly original and exciting idea of these awards, brought to us by TasteEverything.org, is that each of the 30 jury members created one award (as focused and specific as s/he wished) and determined who should receive it. Th...

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January 7, 2005

Honored and Blushing in Food Blog Land

Kate has now unveiled the complete results of the 2004 Food Blog Awards and well, I am the lucky recipient of four awards: Best Writing, Best Recipes, Best Site Design and Best Overall Food Blog. Wow. I am thrilled to pieces, incredibly flattered, and just generally extatic. And grateful. I remember very clearly the night when I decided to create ...

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January 4, 2005

Food Blog Awards: Thank You!

Kate, a.k.a. the Accidental Hedonist is currently unveiling the final results of the Food Blog Awards -- and savoring it oh-so-slooooooowly, the girl knows how to create a suspense! I am proud and delighted to announce that I have been voted Best Food Blog for Writing and Recipes! Many thanks for your votes and your support, I am most, most honore...

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December 22, 2004

Food Blog Award Nominations And A Nod From Le Monde

The official nominations for the 2004 Food Blog Awards have been posted, and it is with great joy that I can announce the nomination of Chocolate & Zucchini in four categories: - Best Writing, - Best Site Design, - Best Recipes and - Best Overall Food Blog! Many many thanks to all of you who have kindly expressed your appreciation, the blog and I ...

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December 13, 2004

2004 Food Blog Awards

Kate, a.k.a. The Accidental Hedonist, is hosting the world's first Food Blog Awards! There are sixteen different categories in which to nominate your favorite blogs, by leaving a comment in the appropriate post. The nominations will close on December 19, at midnight Pacific time....

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November 23, 2004

Foie Gras Tasting

If you are in Paris on Monday, November 29, 2004, I'd like to invite you to join us at La Table de Lucullus, where my friend Nicolas Vagnon is organizing a (free) tasting of his homemade foie gras. The foie gras is from Les Landes (a region in the South-West of France), and Nicolas prepares it in the traditional salt-cooking method (cuisson au ...

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November 17, 2004

Notes from the Gourmet Voice Festival

Well, here I am, back from Cannes! The Gourmet Voice festival was a fabulous three days of food- and media-oriented conferences, conversations and debates. I feel tremendously privileged to have had the opportunity to attend, it was really heartwarming and exciting to meet so many people from all over the world, all sharing that same passion of c...

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November 11, 2004

Bar à Veloutés : Picture Gallery

iPhoto and I have put together a little gallery of the pictures that were taken during the two sessions of our Bar à Veloutés... Click here to view it. Many thanks to the photographers -- Maxence, Patricia and my father!...

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November 8, 2004

Bar à Veloutés, Take 2

On Saturday, Marion and I hosted our second Bar à Veloutés at the Printemps department store, during the Invasions Gourmandes event. We had served savory veloutés last Thursday, and served sweet ones this time. Our guests could choose one of three veloutés : - Velouté coco (a kind of coconut mousse) - Velouté pistache (a pistachio-flavored crème...

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November 5, 2004

Bar à Veloutés, Take 1

Yesterday was the first session of the Bar à Veloutés that Marion Chatelain and myself are hosting at the Printemps de la Maison department store during the Invasions Gourmandes event. Visitors had a choice between three savory veloutés (a velouté is a thick velvety soup), three toppings to sprinkle on, and three edible accessories to dip in : ...

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November 1, 2004

Les Invasions Gourmandes

From now until November 13th, a promotional event around food will be held at Le Printemps de la Maison (the home section of the famous Parisian department store). The event is called Les Invasions Gourmandes, which could be loosely translated as "gourmet invasions", and involves a variety of artists, culinary designers and chefs who will do thei...

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October 22, 2004

C&Z Birthday Party

Pick a good occasion to celebrate -- say, your blog's first birthday. Talk to a chef you know, like and admire, who owns a small restaurant in an unlikely area of Paris. Invite fifty people : old friends, new friends, enthusiastic readers, neighbors and your precious sister -- guests from France, America, Canada, England, Germany, Poland, Italy...

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September 29, 2004

Happy Birthday Chocolate & Zucchini!

"- Bonjour madame la boulangère! I would like to buy a cake for my blog. - What a lucky blog! Is this a special occasion? - Why yes, it is my blog's first birthday! - My my my, how time flies! I remember your blog from when it was just a wee little baby blog, with just a handful of posts -- and now it's one year-old already? - Yes, I am very prou...

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August 2, 2004

Birthday Party

What in the world have I possibly done to deserve such fabulous friends, I wonder? I am still basking in the heartwarming glow of my birthday party, which Maxence and I held in our apartment on Saturday night. Old friends and new friends, all smiles and kind words, whom it was my particular pleasure to see making each other's acquaintance, mingl...

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June 29, 2004

La Baguette, par Jean-Paul Gaultier

[The Baguette, by Jean-Paul Gaultier] What you see here is a baguette created by Jean-Paul Gaultier, as indicated by the signature navy blue stripes. Well, see, I can't just eat any old baguette, it has to have some style, you know? I bought it at an art show that just opened at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, a beautiful exhibition hall on th...

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June 6, 2004

The Paris Potluck : Yet More Recipes!

And here is the final batch of recipes from the Paris Potluck. ~ Featured in this post, you will find : Zucchini Carpaccio (Isabelle) Endive and Lardon Salad (Alisa and Jean-Yves) Codfish and Roasted Tomato Terrine (Christoph) ~ Featured in the previous post were : Spring Vegetable Risotto (Isabelle) Pea and Roasted-Garlic Crostini with Olives ...

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June 1, 2004

The Paris Potluck

When I went to the Salon Saveurs recently, I had the pleasure of meeting with a few Chocolate & Zucchini readers. A few hours of wandering up and down the aisles brought us closer, and as we all sat down, exhausted but exhilarated, the idea of creating a little supper club was brought up. The idea was to throw a dinner party where everyone would ...

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May 10, 2004

Salon Saveurs : my Loot

Last Friday, I attended the Salon Saveurs, a food show held at the Espace Champerret in Paris twice a year. To make a happy event happier, I was blessed with the company of five other food enthusiasts and C&Z readers -- Amy, Pascale, Alisa, Ethan and Isabelle. We were all delighted to make each other's acquaintance, and it was really great to e...

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May 9, 2004

IMBB4 : Around the World in a Bowl of Rice

The fourth edition of Is My Blog Burning?, the one and only distributed food blogging event, will be hosted by Pim. The theme this time around is "Around the world in a bowl of rice", and the idea is -- you guessed it -- to cook a rice dish! Entries should be posted on Sunday, May 23rd, two weeks from now. Check out the details on Pim's blog, a...

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May 2, 2004

Salon Saveurs : wanna join us?

The spring edition of the Saveurs food show starts in Paris next week. I will be there on Friday at 12:30, accompanied by Amy, a C&Z reader since the early days, and Pascale from C'est moi qui l'ai fait. If you are in Paris and available on that day and time, how about joining us? Drop me an email if you'd like to come, and we'll arrange to meet...

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April 5, 2004

A Taste of Balsamic Vinegar

Wine tasting? That is so yesterday, haven't you heard? Balsamic vinegar tasting is all the rage! On Saturday afternoon, Maxence and I attended such a tasting, organized by the Bastille Slow Food convivium. It was held at Sur Les Quais, a spice and oil store in the covered area of the Marché d'Aligre. I've always been very fond of the taste of b...

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April 4, 2004

Pink Buffet : More Pics

If you would like to see more of the pictures I took while preparing the Pink Buffet last week, here is a little pink gallery!...

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April 1, 2004

Pink Buffet!

Yesterday was an exciting, if exhausting, day : I went and helped my friend Keda Black, a fellow cook and writer, with the creation of a buffet for the opening of an art show, at a gallery named La Périphérie. This gallery is a really great place, roomy and bright, setup in a rehabilitated workshop just outside of Paris. The show features illustr...

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