So another thing we discussed in connection with Proust, in the attempt to bring him closer to the students, is the way scents as well as tastes could carry so much.
They played with lavender, oregano, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice. The oregano was fresh and no one recognized it! They just knew they had […]

Some of you may recall that a few weeks back I did a series of interviews chez d’autres auteurs in blogalandia. During the course of one of those interviews, I let it slip that I had never read Proust.
Please note that I did not say that I wished to read Proust. I’ve read […]

If anything could make you want to, it’s a display at a French market. Particularly the Cour Saleya.
(You thought I had gone so far off on a tangent I had forgotten about the Cour Saleya, didn’t you? It was the macarons that did it. They’re distracting.)

Maybe that’s why we don’t eat healthily […]