Table & Foraging
Eat Like You Live in France
Where & how we buy things, how we build meals, and why the small adjustments matter more than recipes
Keith Christiansen
culture
A Year of Living in France - 3 stories, 6 months apart
Three pieces from the last year on relocating, staying, and the part nobody really prepares you for.
Leaving the US
The Aggregator: the Best of March
What got read. What lingered. What I liked.
Soundtrack
The Time Warp, With Instructions—in French
Fifty years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the difference between chaos you fall into and chaos you’re taught how to perform
Leaving the US
You Don’t Start Over, You Continue
You don’t start over. You bring everything with you.
Soundtrack
They Don’t Live, They Just Wait
Asturias, after coal, and the sound of exhaustion
culture
Some Cities Have Markets Every Weekend. Most of France Doesn’t.
How we built a home, what to know, and where to start
Soundtrack
Before Punk Had a Name, the Band Was Already There
From Lima to São Paulo, South American rock forces a rethink of who gets to define music history
american living in france
We Live Here Now (An Update)
Routines, reinvention, and the strange comfort of becoming a data point
culture
Quinqui: The Word That Traveled from Hardware to Street Crime
Flea markets, quinquis, and how language carries a country’s history with it
Soundtrack
The Songs That Never Went Away & Never Should Have Been Made
Marujita Díaz, old songs, and what gets carried forward without question
culture
“Me Cago en Dios”: The Phrase You’re Not Supposed to Understand
In northern Spain, what sounds like blasphemy is just everyday speech—a reminder sometimes, translation will only get you so far