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Les Saveurs de Pierre Emile – CLOSED

Les Saveurs de Pierre Emile – CLOSED

Closed permanently. The best savory tarts and fruit compote sans sucre, just a stone’s throw away. We finally went there for lunch, and it was delicious.  Our favorite, the tomato…

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Tokyo on the Seine

Tokyo on the Seine

ByPaulAug 7, 2013

There has always been a long history of love of all that is Japanese in France.  The trend…

Albert Kahn Museé et Jardin

Albert Kahn Museé et Jardin

ByPaulAug 6, 2013

Albert Kahn, amazing philanthropist and traveler, bought the Boulogne property in 1895 and slowly bought up his neighbours’…

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Campaign to Eat More French Bread ‘Coucou, Tu as pris le pain?’

ByPaulAug 5, 2013

We’re doing our best while in Paris to make up for it, but French people are not eating…

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Whiteboard in French?

ByPaulJan 24, 2013

I love my kids’ education at the French American school here in San Francisco. Among other things, it’s…

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The Locks on Paris’s Bridges Represent a Misunderstanding

ByPaulAug 27, 2012

The background on that whole crazy “locks on pedestrian bridges” thing: Symbols of undying love — though not…