Tag Archives: French Food

A gastrocomical gaffe

It wasn’t my first choice.  It wasn’t even my second or third.  It was booked on my fourth attempt to find a Melbourne Food and Wine Festival dinner to go to with friends.  Juggling availabilities, location and my late foray into finding something, I knew it was a big ask to get a booking for [...]

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Happy Bastille Day ~ Vive le France!

Bastille Day is a national holiday in France and celebrates the storming of the Paris bastille in 1789 an event that changed France forever.  Although it had little practical use, it represented a popular uprising against what was viewed as an oppressive institution. A major catalyst in the French Revolution it saw the birth of [...]

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