musings of a traveller and food lover

France, Food, Travel & Culture

exquisite pleasures… madeleines

I wanted to do something special to mark this special date…. who would have thought that five years ago just around the holidays I was digging for some recipes that I stumbled to a ...

… a gem for a less, restaurant acchiardo

I wonder what made me enter that place… I was walking around the web of streets in the old town of Nice (Vieux Nice), and had no plans to eat lunch yet… I was just stopping by and taking ...

…”best pasta in the world”

With the summer fading away, I made the last lunch for the family today. One of the kids left for London while the rest of the family are leaving on Friday. This means too, I leave France ...

mousse au chocolat

There is nothing I can describe such pleasure drinking a glass of merlot and licking a mousse au chocolate covered spoon on wet rainy evening here in Florida… while my mental state ...

pass the bone… S’il Vous Pla

I have been archiving my photos and found this one…. I was on my way to meet up a friend for cafe au lait when I passed this dog waiting outside the boucherie just next to Marche ...

rosh hashanah lunch, cap d’antibes, france

As many of you know I am Filipina, partly grew up in Greece, raised Catholic, was married to a Swiss Protestant, understand the Greek Orthodox way and very tolerant to different culture and ...

a short break of my french life…

few days away from boats and antibes , just a short break to london. both bakeries are here in antibes…the first bakery (they are from corsica) , sells great cinammon rolls that by ...

oh sunny day @ plage keller

certain posts have been lying dormant on my drafts that are worth posting. this restaurant we visited last june 2005 but hey I passed the place last summer and its still packed! so ...

Rouge Thon

The day before I joined the yacht for 2 weeks trial, I went to Cannes and met up a friend. Cannes as some of you know was my base last year. I arrange to meet my friend at the gare – ...