In the Best Travel Story in the Travel & Food event, where food and friends and foreign culture are celebrated, Mastering the Art of (Liking) French Cooking won Gold. In this story, famous foodies and Francophiles Julia Child and M.F.K. Fisher set the scene. Both...
In the overall Grand Prize – Best Travel Story of the Year event, a competition that honors “extraordinary stories about travel and the human spirit,” Marriage, Dubois Style won Bronze for what judges called its “witty account of the way of French relations.”...
What does it take to go the distance? A marriage made in…France. “Just add three letters to Paris and you have paradise.” – Jules Renard The family Dubois of Avenue Foch are French. That is to say, the family Dubois are different. In an age when...
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner…Never Again Madame P. is coming to dinner. A real American meal is on the menu and Madame P. has never been to America. This lifelong Marseille housewife is as pure a product of Provence as hot sun, a blaze of blue sky, and the...
Afterward when travelers to Paris talk – and they do – much is sometimes made of the city’s saleswomen. Polished to a gloss and presiding within the chic boutiques of Avenue Montaigne, or windswept, stoic and cold behind the winter apple display of an outdoor market,...
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