Serve It Forth

Though I generally prefer dark chocolate, there’s no denying that milk chocolate pairs very well with certain flavors. Peanut butter and bananas, for example.

Though irrefutably Bordelais, the little cakes known as cannelés have conflicting origin stories. One attributes their development to a group of nuns. A more sentimental spin credits resourceful Bordeaux residents, who scooped up flour spilled from sacks during unloading at the port and used it to make the cakes for impoverished children.

Continue reading about Cannelés at Girls’ Guide to Paris…

In Paris, there’s really no need to travel far for bread. But that doesn’t mean there’s not bread that’s worth a trip.

“I’ve come for the burger,” I announced when I walked in.

I can’t believe it took me so long to get to this one.

When I was visiting my brother over the holidays, he told me he wanted to say something, and that he hoped it wouldn’t upset me.

“Uh, OK,” I said.

Should someone come to his senses in the next day or so, this is what we’ll be eating on Sunday.