Hi David, I am just now getting time to read your January newsletter, and the link about travel mistakes not to make in the NYT is not working…am I just too late and it is locked again? Going to Paris in February and I certainly don’t want to make a mistake ha! Thanks!
Despite being a Paris-o-phile of long-standing, and now renovating our 400-year-old building in the Loire, when we came into Paris for my birthday in December I decided to go on your recommendation of a restaurant. We just wanted good traditional French food and wine, great service, cozy atmosphere, and walk-able from Odeon. Chez Fernand - it was just the ticket. The food was so perfect it was practically clichéed. We were happy. So my decision to go on your recommendation, was just right! Happy New Year! Thank you for your recommendations!
35,000 decisions a day ? As a competitive bridge player, I have to make 240 decisions during a three hours tournament, that leave room for 34,760 other decisions, more than enough it seems to me.
Très très bonne année cher David, avec plein de beaux projets,
On hanging the bartard: How about horizontally up above the sink? I see you guys trying it out everywhere vertically (maybe that is a guy thing ;). But I see it horizontally.
Looking forward to your new book(s), David, and more stories from Paris. I will be staying in Paris myself for a few weeks in March and am looking forward to visit some of the places you have recommended in your posts.
Having a hubby with Parkinson’s means I’m ’it’ for pretty much every thing but hey I do get to choose Italian donuts over raisin bread and Tim Tams (an Aussie biscuit) over digestives so I’m not complaining.
So pleased to hear there is a book in the pipeline I’m currently lining up icecreams to make in my new Breville icecream maker from your book .... now that’s a decision I’m really happy to make.
Happy 2024 I hope the decisions you have to make give you joy. 💐
Happy New Year David...I once said to an ex son in law when I asked if he would like tea or coffee “Stop procrastinating, how hard a decision is it!” I’m the bossy one and say, this is where we are going, hate waiting for people to make decisions. Here in Australia retirement age has been lifted to 67 and they are now talking 70! We visited NYC a few years ago and the one food item I remember is a Rueben sandwich, it was so huge, it fed us both for lunch and breakfast the following morning! And Krispy Kremes, give me a croissant in preference any day. Wow, we will keep away from Paris when the Olympics are on, who can afford those prices. It is nice to have the best quality in the kitchen, I have an expensive set of SS saucepans which I have had for 25 years and still look as good as new after plenty of use, but the one saucepan I use most is a $5 teflon lined milk saucepan from Target which I bought around the same time, how lucky am I. You are fortunate to have an editor, when I first started on Substack, even after checking I would find once the article had been posted there would be errors, now I check, check again then re-check just prior to it being published, still, every now and again something slips through..grrr. Good luck with your book projects this year.
Yes, a good rueben will feed two quite fillingly. Krispy Kremes or any other doughnut is not in my diet. I did like the ones at the doughnut bakery adjacent to Golden Gate Park (S.F.) as a child. It became a bike shop. I wonder if the inflated costs in Paris will recede post Olympics? That I rather doubt, as nothing seems to go down in cost once the vendors/sellers/suppliers found that we will pay for it.
Hi Susan, we have the same thing here in Australia with hotel accommodation going up for the Tennis and Taylor Swift in particular, like from $300 to $900, now that is just price gouging. But here it will go back to normal, thank goodness, otherwise we wouldn’t be going into the city to stay. Do you still live in San Francisco, we loved visiting there several years ago but I understand, and I could be mis-informed, that the homeless situation has made the city a totally different place to visit. But then our city of Melbourne is becoming awful in certain areas with the homeless and drug affected, guess it is a world wide thing. Much prefer the glass of wine I am enjoying than even contemplating taking something I have no idea what it contains.
Years ago I had a book come out with the word "tablespooon" spelled with an extra "o." Books go through multiple reads, then are read by a copyeditor, a proofreader, and an editor. When I looked at the PDF of the book that went to the printer, it was spelled correctly, so not sure what happened but Maida Heatter called them cookbook "gremlins"....which somehow get in there.
I used to get very uptight about typos on my blog and would read things about a hundred times before posting, then sometimes there would be one. I decided there are some pretty severe problems in the world, and that there are worst things than a missing or misplaced apostrophe.
I guess people want to be in the middle of the action, and will come for the Olympics no matter what, but I'm fine watching it on tv : )
Happy New Year, David! I had to laugh, I took your advice when my husband said, what movie do you want to watch? And I said, Barbie. Well, after 10 minutes I announced I am going to bed and read. So that backfired on me! Love the baguette, I love it on the thin strip of wall!
Hi David, I am just now getting time to read your January newsletter, and the link about travel mistakes not to make in the NYT is not working…am I just too late and it is locked again? Going to Paris in February and I certainly don’t want to make a mistake ha! Thanks!
Oh you are so lucky and so deserving to have a team of talented people working with you. Cheers to them and to you.
So enjoyed this week's newsletter....thanks!
hope you have a wonderful New Year! Gail Hines, Detroit
Hi David: Please get the recipe for caramelized rice pudding or just your best guess of how to make ThNk you ! Joan Klein
Me, too!
Despite being a Paris-o-phile of long-standing, and now renovating our 400-year-old building in the Loire, when we came into Paris for my birthday in December I decided to go on your recommendation of a restaurant. We just wanted good traditional French food and wine, great service, cozy atmosphere, and walk-able from Odeon. Chez Fernand - it was just the ticket. The food was so perfect it was practically clichéed. We were happy. So my decision to go on your recommendation, was just right! Happy New Year! Thank you for your recommendations!
35,000 decisions a day ? As a competitive bridge player, I have to make 240 decisions during a three hours tournament, that leave room for 34,760 other decisions, more than enough it seems to me.
Très très bonne année cher David, avec plein de beaux projets,
Paulexo
On hanging the bartard: How about horizontally up above the sink? I see you guys trying it out everywhere vertically (maybe that is a guy thing ;). But I see it horizontally.
Looking forward to your new book(s), David, and more stories from Paris. I will be staying in Paris myself for a few weeks in March and am looking forward to visit some of the places you have recommended in your posts.
Happy New Year!
Having a hubby with Parkinson’s means I’m ’it’ for pretty much every thing but hey I do get to choose Italian donuts over raisin bread and Tim Tams (an Aussie biscuit) over digestives so I’m not complaining.
So pleased to hear there is a book in the pipeline I’m currently lining up icecreams to make in my new Breville icecream maker from your book .... now that’s a decision I’m really happy to make.
Happy 2024 I hope the decisions you have to make give you joy. 💐
Happy New Year, David! (and to your "someone" with the couch complex!) (grin)
Hi, Daveed. Any time your proofreader is away, I can help. I'm a retired English professor.
Happy New Year David...I once said to an ex son in law when I asked if he would like tea or coffee “Stop procrastinating, how hard a decision is it!” I’m the bossy one and say, this is where we are going, hate waiting for people to make decisions. Here in Australia retirement age has been lifted to 67 and they are now talking 70! We visited NYC a few years ago and the one food item I remember is a Rueben sandwich, it was so huge, it fed us both for lunch and breakfast the following morning! And Krispy Kremes, give me a croissant in preference any day. Wow, we will keep away from Paris when the Olympics are on, who can afford those prices. It is nice to have the best quality in the kitchen, I have an expensive set of SS saucepans which I have had for 25 years and still look as good as new after plenty of use, but the one saucepan I use most is a $5 teflon lined milk saucepan from Target which I bought around the same time, how lucky am I. You are fortunate to have an editor, when I first started on Substack, even after checking I would find once the article had been posted there would be errors, now I check, check again then re-check just prior to it being published, still, every now and again something slips through..grrr. Good luck with your book projects this year.
Yes, a good rueben will feed two quite fillingly. Krispy Kremes or any other doughnut is not in my diet. I did like the ones at the doughnut bakery adjacent to Golden Gate Park (S.F.) as a child. It became a bike shop. I wonder if the inflated costs in Paris will recede post Olympics? That I rather doubt, as nothing seems to go down in cost once the vendors/sellers/suppliers found that we will pay for it.
Hi Susan, we have the same thing here in Australia with hotel accommodation going up for the Tennis and Taylor Swift in particular, like from $300 to $900, now that is just price gouging. But here it will go back to normal, thank goodness, otherwise we wouldn’t be going into the city to stay. Do you still live in San Francisco, we loved visiting there several years ago but I understand, and I could be mis-informed, that the homeless situation has made the city a totally different place to visit. But then our city of Melbourne is becoming awful in certain areas with the homeless and drug affected, guess it is a world wide thing. Much prefer the glass of wine I am enjoying than even contemplating taking something I have no idea what it contains.
No, I am in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I do miss the City sometimes, especially in our hot summers when I long for a foggy summer day in SF.
You can visit SF, and with some care, not be engulfed in the homeless, druggie tragedies. That said, it is not the city I grew up in any longer.
Years ago I had a book come out with the word "tablespooon" spelled with an extra "o." Books go through multiple reads, then are read by a copyeditor, a proofreader, and an editor. When I looked at the PDF of the book that went to the printer, it was spelled correctly, so not sure what happened but Maida Heatter called them cookbook "gremlins"....which somehow get in there.
I used to get very uptight about typos on my blog and would read things about a hundred times before posting, then sometimes there would be one. I decided there are some pretty severe problems in the world, and that there are worst things than a missing or misplaced apostrophe.
I guess people want to be in the middle of the action, and will come for the Olympics no matter what, but I'm fine watching it on tv : )
I can't decide what to say to you David, should I just wait till a little later or would tomorrow be better 🤔🥴🤣?
Good one Bonnie
Happy New Year, David! I had to laugh, I took your advice when my husband said, what movie do you want to watch? And I said, Barbie. Well, after 10 minutes I announced I am going to bed and read. So that backfired on me! Love the baguette, I love it on the thin strip of wall!
Happy New Year David!!!