A Love Letter to Paris: the Everyday Luxury of Pastry

Food-loving Paris is a playground for pastry. I may have come to Paris twelve years ago as a dedicated student of linguistics and French literature, but I quickly learned I’d need to learn another language entirely to fully immerse myself in the culture—the language of pastry.  And it was by focusing my attention on all […]

The 7 Montmartre Restaurants Locals Love

Few neighborhoods in Paris offer better views or more charming corners than Montmartre. And the abundance of fabulous Montmartre restaurants is just another reason to love this corner of Paris. Once a bucolic hilltop hamlet in its own right, Montmartre soon became a place of refuge for artists such as Van Gogh, Picasso and Dali. […]