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5th Annual Menu for Hope
6th Annual Menu for Hope: Raffle Winners!
Best of 2006
Best of 2008
Best of 2009
Blog Day 2005: New Blogs to Discover!
Bloxicon
C&Z's 5th Anniversary Party!
Choc & Zucc Dinner
Edible Wallpapers
From Montmartre to Montreal
Help Plant Trees + Enter to Win A Reusable Shopping Bag
If There Could Only Be Five
Le Troyon
Menu for Hope V: Raffle Results
Sardine Harissa Polar Bread Sandwich
Soupe de Courge Musquée aux Epices
The Blind Cook: a Q&A
The Last Bite Axiom (and Corollaries)
The Omnivore's Hundred
Tips for a Green Kitchen, Part I
Tips for a Green Kitchen, Part II
Today Show Appearance
What should I bring back from Oz?
[Edible Idiom] Boire du petit-lait
[Edible Idiom] Pédaler dans la semoule
[Edible Idiom] Rouler quelqu'un dans la farine
January 24, 2010
6th Annual Menu for Hope: Raffle Winners!
The winners of the Menu for Hope fundraiser/raffle have been announced. Thank you all for your generous participation! Alice Boussicaut, Tamsin Ballard, Katarina Tierer and Leah Bevington, please get in touch with me to collect your prizes!...
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January 5, 2010
Best of 2009
In the wee hours of a fresh new year, it is a lovely feeling to sit down and reminisce about the one that just ended, trying to squeeze out its essence and single out a few of its most memorable moments. Among them, and in no particular order, I would list the release of a French classic I helped edit, a Best Culinary Travel Guide award for my Par...
April 29, 2009
Tips for a Green Kitchen, Part II
As promised yesterday, when I announced the winners of the green kitchen tip contest, I have compiled a digest of the other submissions. I want to thank you all for taking the time to share your tips. It was an exciting feeling to have all 288 of them pour into my inbox throughout the day, proving yet again how much you care about these issues, an...
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April 28, 2009
Tips for a Green Kitchen, Part I
For my Earth Day post last week, I partnered with Eva from flip & tumble and asked you to help plant trees in Malawi, and to submit your best green tips for a chance to win a reusable shopping bag. Some 500 tree-planting comments were submitted. Eva and I had planned to have two trees planted per comment, but then we got excited and decided to dou...
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April 22, 2009
Help Plant Trees + Enter to Win A Reusable Shopping Bag
Today is the 39th edition of Earth Day, an international event created to celebrate that blue planet of ours, and raise awareness about environmental issues. As I explained in this recent Q&A, I have grown more and more environmentally conscious over the past few years: without being completely obsessed with the topic, I do my best to educate myse...
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January 15, 2009
Menu for Hope V: Raffle Results
The 5th Annual Menu for Hope campaign has raised over $62,000 in support of the UN's World Food Program in Lesotho. Thank you for your support and generosity, and head over to Pim's to check the raffle results and see if you've won. And if you're the winner of one of my three prizes (EU09, EU10, or EU11), please get in touch to collect it!...
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December 31, 2008
Best of 2008
As I get things ready for the New Year's Eve party we're throwing tonight -- a very casual affair, mind you, it's the only kind we like (or know how) to host -- I'd like to take a moment to say goodbye to 2008, and remember the good things it has brought. Besides the release of the French version of my cookbook and the US publication of my new Par...
December 15, 2008
5th Annual Menu for Hope
Today marks the beginning of the 5th edition of Menu for Hope, a fundraising campaign created by Pim and championed by food bloggers all around the world. The funds raised will benefit the United Nations' World Food Programme and more specifically, their school feeding program in Lesotho, which provides breakfast and lunch to primary school child...
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November 7, 2008
[Edible Idiom] Rouler quelqu'un dans la farine
This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Read the introductory Edible Idiom post, and browse the list of French idioms featured so far. This week's expression is, "Rouler quelqu'un dans la farine." Literally translated as, "rolling someone in flour," it means duping someone, playing a trick on him, or using on...
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October 31, 2008
[Edible Idiom] Pédaler dans la semoule
This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Read the introductory Edible Idiom post, and browse the list of the French idioms featured so far. This week's expression is, "Pédaler dans la semoule." The literal translation is "pedaling in semolina," and it means being entangled in a thorny situation, with the added...
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October 24, 2008
[Edible Idiom] Boire du petit-lait
This is part of a series on French idiomatic expressions that relate to food. Read the introductory Edible Idiom post, and browse the list of French idioms featured so far. This week's expression is, "Boire du petit-lait" (sometimes appearing as "Boire son petit-lait"). The literal translation is, "drinking whey" (sometimes appearing as "drinking...
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October 14, 2008
The Blind Cook: a Q&A
A few months ago, I received an unusual email from an American reader of Chocolate & Zucchini, David E. Price, a former geologist and now computer programmer who goes to graduate school in Salt Lake City, and is an enthusiastic cook. David explained that he had purchased copies of my books but that -- and here comes the unusual part -- because he ...
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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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August 17, 2008
The Omnivore's Hundred
The Omnivore's Hundred is an eclectic and entirely subjective list of 100 items that Andrew Wheeler, co-author of the British food blog Very Good Taste, thinks every omnivore should try at least once in his life. He offered this list as the starting point for a game, along the following rules: 1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including...
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May 10, 2008
Edible Wallpapers
Inspired by the brush tutorials that Delphine has published on her ever delightful blog, I have whiled away a few air travel hours drawing three edible wallpapers* to be used as a background on your computer desktop**. (Please note that these backgrounds are for personal use only and not for republishing. If you wish to use them on your website,...
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April 30, 2008
Today Show Appearance
I was a guest on the Today Show* yesterday morning, and my segment is now available online, if you'd like to see me demo my Pear and Chocolate Cake-Tart, a recipe taken from Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris. (This was my second time on the show; read about last year's segment here.) * The Today Show is a national television show that's broa...
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February 17, 2008
What should I bring back from Oz?
As those of you who subscribe to the C&Z newsletter already know, I am just about to fly off to Australia for the Perth Writers' Festival. I will be spending time in Perth and Albany -- that's it for this trip, but I'll be back! -- and participating in four fun events (detailed list here) with fellow writers. I hope to have a little time to explor...
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February 8, 2008
From Montmartre to Montreal
If you live in a place where you get the television channel Télé Québec, I'd like to draw your attention to tonight's edition of À la di Stasio, a cooking show hosted (in French) by the delightful Josée di Stasio: she came to Paris last fall, and we shot a segment together in my neighborhood. ">The show will air tonight (i.e. Friday) at 9p...
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January 11, 2008
If There Could Only Be Five
If you keep an eye on my book list, you may have noticed I am currently reading Michael Ruhlman's recently published, orange book*. In The Elements of Cooking, he proposes to break down and discuss the building blocks of the cooking craft, like William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White did for writers in their classic little volume The Elements of Style, t...
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January 2, 2007
Best of 2006
Happy New Year! As we slowly ease into 2007, recover from the holiday season and draw up virtuous resolutions we'll promptly forget so we can unearth them in December and have a good laugh, let us take a moment to bid a fond farewell to 2006 (where do years go when they're over?) and reflect upon the good things it has brought. Here's my Best of li...
August 31, 2005
Blog Day 2005: New Blogs to Discover!
Today is Blog Day 2005, an event that was created to help broaden our blog horizons. So many blogs get created every day that it's impossible to keep up with all, and most of us find ourselves visiting the same favorite blogs, the ones where we feel at home and comfortable, where we know who's writing and what it's about, the ones that have been ar...
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January 20, 2004
The Last Bite Axiom (and Corollaries)
As you well know, I give a fair amount of thought to food (understatement of the year). Lately, I've been thinking more and more about the special ways in which we eat our food. In paying attention to this, I have noticed the host of small unconscious ceremonials that I conduct while eating, and I wanted to share them with you. I hope you'll reco...
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November 28, 2003
Soupe de Courge Musquée aux Epices
[Spiced Pumpkin Soup] I am ordinarily not a huge winter squash fan. I used to dislike sweet and savory together when I was little, and that seems to vaguely remain when it comes to pumpkin and its brothers and sisters. But I do love the look of them and how they come in all shapes, sizes and colors and look like a little munchkin tribe. And the ot...
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November 8, 2003
Le Troyon
Update, spring 2004 : Le Troyon is now closed, but the same team now runs Caïus at 6 rue d'Armaillé in the 17th (01 42 27 19 20). [Very surprisingly, Le Troyon does not give out little address cards like most restaurants do, so I don't have a picture for this entry!] Last Monday, my parents invited Maxence and I to dinner at Le Troyon, Maxence's ...
October 28, 2003
Bloxicon
I have worked on creating a handy little lexicon of the French words and expressions I use in this blog. It can be found here, and will be added to, as new posts introduce new words! You can all thank me when you're fluent in French... Note that a link has also been added on the left navigation bar, in the "Features" section....
October 11, 2003
Sardine Harissa Polar Bread Sandwich
Or : The Return of the Polar Bread Sandwich I made myself another yummy sandwich on polar bread for lunch today. This time, the filling was this : a can of quality sardines packed in olive oil (drained and patted with paper towels), a shallot - chopped with my friend the chef knife, a handful of flat parsley - chopped with my other friend the mez...
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October 3, 2003
Choc & Zucc Dinner
Tonight, two of my best friends are coming for a "girls only" dinner, as Maxence is on vacation in Tunisia (he leads quite the tough life, doesn't he). Marie-Laure Laurence and I go way back, we have in fact recently celebrated our ten-year friendship anniversary (yup, that's the kind of things we do!). We met in the first few days of junior high ...
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