links for 2009-11-06

SKorean Woman Passes Driver’s Exam on 950th Try – NYTimes.com File under: If at first you don’t succeed. . . . (tags: oddities)

links for 2009-10-25

Lebanon dips into another world record with hummus – Yahoo! News For those, like me, who love hummus. (tags: hummus Lebanon)

links for 2009-10-21

Black and Orange: Black Bread with Manchego, Marmalade, and Hazelnuts What to do with black Himalayan salt! (tags: recipes sandwiches) ‘Wichcraft For Dinner: Trying To Go Beyond Sandwiches Since I don’t live in NYC anymore, I guess I will have…

D Day

doublage (m) = dubbing (de film) désalpe (f) = process of bringing cattle down from the high Alps for winter (we actually have festivals dedicated to this!)  démailloter = to take the swaddling clothes off No one can complain that…

The words of the day come from a sign on the door of our building, which forbids: colportage (m) = hawking, peddling mendicité (m) = begging

links for 2009-10-12

Dinner Tonight: Beef and Dark Beer Chili This sounds great. Will not to try to make anytime soon, since I am sure some ingredients not available here. (tags: chili recipes) 8 Coping Tips for Living in Paris – David Lebovitz…

Today is a D kind of day: daube (f) = stew, casserole dauber = to braise, but also to jeer! dicton (m) = saying, dictum