When I first came across this dish at the Château de la Chèvre d'Or , I thought it was sheer madness. Then I tasted it and decided other...

I wasn't planning to bring you a bread recipe today, but when this chubby loaf came out of the oven I found it irresistible. It's th...

With spring around the corner, the last thing I should be thinking about is knobbly, hairy vegetables that grow under the ground. There are ...

My downstairs neighbor Tony is normally quite friendly. When I run into him in the street, he says hello and sometimes stops for a chat. On ...

Like most people who make a sort of living from writing, I rarely spring into action until I sense a deadline looming. With just two days le...

Something I've learned over time at the Cours Saleya market is that things are not always as they appear. So, with my heart set on trouc...

I'm having a hard time concentrating on my chosen subject this morning, so potent are the chocolatey aromas wafting from the oven at Emi...

Just when you think you can't eat another cake or drink another glass of champagne (well, ok, I can always drink champagne), the French...

I'm not the first blogger to discover Dorie Greenspan 's all-time favorite World Peace Cookies, but I must add my voice to the choru...

Sometimes what I want is not fanciful layers of meringue, mousse and ganache but a crisp oatmeal cookie studded with tiny purple-black curra...

(Sorry about the bad pun, but there is no editor to restrain me.) A task I look forward to every month is translating the newsletter of Oliv...

I've been doing my best to forget about tomatoes, loading up at the market on knobbly-skinned winter squash, the tender little broccoli ...

Why pumpkin pie, you might ask, when Thanksgiving is over? Well, for one thing, this pumpkin pie is good enough to make just for the pleasur...

Homemade pizza might not seem like a very grand way to celebrate a birthday, but to that I reply: it depends on what you drink with it. Acco...

The nights are growing nippy here and it's dark by 6pm, but I'm not complaining. For me, the official end of the scorching Niçois su...