A travel & food blog from Andi Fisher - Merry musings of a feisty food slash globe-trotting wannabe Frenchie!
Happy Bastille Day! Or fête nationale for my Frenchie friends! I will be celebrating today with champagne and foie gras (from France, not purchased illegally in California). I think I might even begin the process of applying for my French citizenship, seems like a great day to do it! Want to help me celebrate? (I [...]
These days when I can make Saturday Six happen on Saturday I feel blessed! My weeks are going by like a blur and I was just reminded yesterday that I am going to turn 42 in January and not 41…where has this year gone? I have been on the road for small one or two-day [...]
Saturday Six on Saturday this week – progress! I hope all is well out there. As for myself, I am dreaming of a vacation, seems like years since I was in Brittany eating my way through good food and good cider! What I wouldn’t give for a quick trip to Paris to see my blogging [...]
Often known as the French Happy Hour (or l’apéro) this expression also has a seamier side. It’s known for the traditional hour for the mistress in France. You can probably picture it: business man leaves the office at 5:00 after a busy day and heads over to meet his amant (lover) at a discreet hotel [...]
Summertime, vacation time. The time of the year to send out postcards to family and friends who are in different parts of the country or the world. Did you realize that there are different styles of how you send your postcard based on culture? I sure didn’t! If you know anything about French people you [...]
I’m cheating this week. I’m telling you right off that I have more than six posts in my Saturday Six, couldn’t be helped, I just could not whittle my list down. As I continuously add blogs to my already massive blog feed I might have to start calling this weekly post Saturday Sixty! There are [...]
Even after being with my French husband for eight years and despite the fact I lived in France for three, I just learned a very interesting French table manner fact that I was completely unaware of! I read it in a blog last week and can’t for the life re-find the post (if it was [...]
When I look over my selections this week for Saturday Six I see two themes: love/marriage and etiquette. I didn’t plan it that way. Throughout the week as I read your many, many blog posts (I have over 300 blogs in my reader), I copy the urls of those that really stick with me into [...]
I had nearly decided that I wasn’t going to do a Saturday Six today, but then I got to reading the backlog of blog posts in my RSS feed and found posts that I wanted to highlight. A visit to my feed is like an unexpected gift and I never know what I am going [...]
Today’s post will be short. I have been at the Sonoma International Film Festival the last couple of days for work and haven’t had time to read many blogs. I will be writing about my experiences next week so stay tuned! And in Hollywood-talk….on with the show! [1] Linda Donahue of Parisien Salon wrote an [...]
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