All Posts Tagged With: "french gourmet"
French News Guy
(Authors Note: Many readers of THIS POST wanted to know the story behind it. Here ’tis!) Not “As Seen On TV” With a title like “French News Guy”, you might reasonably assume that I’m referring to a French Television New Anchor.(“Presenter” for my readers in fish ‘n chip land) And you would be wrong. […]
3Mar2012 | Bicycle Gourmet | 22 comments | Continued
French Pawn Shop Bank
In my last post, I took you on a video tour of Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny. As you’re well aware, in addition to his fame after death, ‘ole Claude was famous while he was alive! A happy condition not shared by the majority of his Impressionist pals. (Sisley comes particularly to mind.) Fame, of […]
27Feb2012 | Bicycle Gourmet | 37 comments | Continued
Claude Monet and Friends
OK – it IS a hokey title. But, to paraphrase Woody Allen on another subject “as hokey titles go, it’s one of the best.” The reason I can say that with a straight face is that Claude Monet and Friends, is a visual reminder that although Cher Claude is unquestionably the most famous French artist, […]
21Feb2012 | Bicycle Gourmet | 15 comments | Continued