Table & Foraging
Sometimes You Do Want American Food in France
Most of it can be rebuilt. Some of it should just be left behind .
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The Market Before the Last of Everyone Disappears
Small melons, quail eggs that were already gone, peaches at their peak, the smell of smoke in the distance & a town on the verge of stopping completely
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The Cactus Is Doing Great
A cactus outside my house became an unexpected review about the climate, tacos, caterpillars, and how "French food" is a moving target.
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Bread. Soap. Cookies.
A homemade tube of lip balm, a Finnish immigrant, 460 million tons of plastic, and a few questions about what we’ve forgotten how to do.
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Eat Like You Live in France
Where & how we buy things, how we build meals, and why the small adjustments matter more than recipes
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Fabada, Vacuum-Sealed
A market in Gijón, a bag of beans, and how to cook Asturias anywhere
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The French Ate a Million Songbirds. But Not Lizards.
culinary tradition & endangered songbirds, and how people decide just what counts as food — with a recipe I hope to never make
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That Patch of Wood Sorrel in the Lawn (Yes, You Can Eat It)
Wood sorrel, the easiest wild plant to recognize—and the one that turns grass into food & has a long French history
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The €50 Pâté Incident
The real difference between pâté, terrine, and rillettes — plus why good charcuterie costs what it does (and how to make it yourself for €12).
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Who Is the Mâchon For Now?
Tripe recipes, traditions and when worker food becomes marketing heritage
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Pancakes Against Pollution, the Apocalypse, What Have You
Buckwheat, Cadmium, and the Legacies of What We Eat
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France Is Dosing Itself With Cadmium
France’s quiet cadmium crisis — how soil, fertilizer, and old myths are feeding a modern public health issue