A Good Forking

• Ellsworth - Paris 8 years ago It has been a very long time between posts (although admittedly not between drinks). The last 6 months have been replete with plentiful lols, copious Côtes du Rhône and many a late night filled with truffled ham, calvados camembert and karaoke; I have swiped left and swiped right and...
• Il Vino - Paris 9 years ago I can safely say that my fondness for wine and cheese was inherited from my papa Bruce String-bean. Growing up, every Thursday night dad and his three besties would gather at our house for the weekly bridge night – which was essentially a wine and cheese degustation under the guise of a card...
• Pirouette - Paris 9 years ago I’ve made my fair share of embarrassing linguistic aberrations over the last two and a half years in Paris – I certainly learned the hard way that péter does not mean ‘to pat’, nor does la bite have any correlation to the word ‘bite’ (at least all men out there hope). So I feel...
• Miznon - Paris 9 years ago We all know I don’t make friends with salad (although I do have a very unfortunate fondness for les salauds) but after three days of hard-core, and I might add rather uncharacteristic, juice detoxing I thought I should ease my body back onto solids with something light and healthy. And so I...
• Brika - Perth 9 years ago It started with Cyprus Hill and ended in Celine Dion (and a Sunday full of maudlin self pity), but boy what a night it was. On the last weekend of my whirlwind Easter trip home, Fontina Turner and I decided to organise a little soiree to catch up with our favourite ex-Paris expats, the...

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