W September 18, 2013Categories Beirut Paris Travel Diary Where to Find Labned and Other Lebanese Cravings in Paris Until I moved to France, I had spent most of my time as an expat living in Montreal. If you’ve so much as dipped a..
5 February 22, 2013Categories Books Paris Travel Diary 5 Cookbooks to Start a New Life in Paris When I was a kid, my mother’s cookbooks were a thing of wonder. She was always a very adventurous cook and she piled up copies..
D February 3, 2013Categories Beirut Books Cities Eating out Montreal Paris Travel Diary Ditch your Guidebooks: 4 Steps to Eating Like a Local in a New City If like me you organize your trips around where and what you are going to eat then you may agree that the old (insert name..
I November 4, 2012Categories Food Culture Paris IKEA | The evil layout Recently, my collegues and I went to IKEA from some serious dose of adult fun. Because lets face it, no matter how many times we’ve..
H October 15, 2012Categories Eating out Paris Travel Diary Hyotan | Fancy some Tokyo in Paris? After watching Jiro Dreams of Sushi this week, you can imagine I walked out with an intense craving for some really good sushi in an..
J October 14, 2012Categories Beirut Eating out Food Culture Paris Travel Diary Jiro Dreams of Sushi 85 year old, Jiro Ono, runs Sukiyabashi Jiro, a tiny ten seat sushi restaurant in a tokyo metro station, who just happens to be regarded..
M October 11, 2012Categories Beirut Family Recipe Book Food Culture Montreal Paris Travel Diary Moving out of Lebanon? Here’s a checklist of food to take with you Lovingly illustrated by my dear friend Suzanne Anhoury. I’d love to hear from you guys on the tastes you miss the most, and the items..
S April 23, 2012Categories Cities Paris Travel Diary Shopping for food in Paris Ten years ago, if you asked me about Paris I would’ve gladly told you how much I hated this city. I would’ve said it had..