While we are practicing our French, let’s have a little fun and listen to some French people try to say some English words. After watching this, it’s easy to realize that the French have just as much difficulty pronouncing English words as we do when trying to speak French. And in my experience, when in…
Looking for an Easy Way to Learn Some French?
Did you study a foreign language in school like I did? It was so much fun at the time and I was hooked. Then *blink* and too many years go by without much of an opportunity to use your new found language and you can’t remember enough to have a conversation in another country. …
Happy National Crêpes Suzette Day!
Well how about that, today May 6 is National Crêpes Suzette Day! So now everyone needs to either go out and order the infamous dish or make it at home tonight for a special dessert. Ummmmmm, right. This is a typical French dessert, that was invented for the Brits! French dessert Crêpes Suzette consists of…
How to Make Your Own Icelandic Yogurt
Back in my hippie days in college — no, I really wasn’t a hippie but I did have a tie-dyed shirt — I discovered “health foods.” One of them was yogurt. Growing up I’d never even heard of yogurt let alone eaten it. But when I got to college we had a dairy on campus…
Holiday Fun at My Favorite American Brocante
Last weekend I went to my favorite American brocante, or flea market and antique show. The Scott Antique Market sets up in Atlanta the second weekend of every month, and here you will find two HUGE warehouses filled with vendors from around the southeastern United States and beyond. It is an antique lover’s dream destination (unless…
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