After a beautiful late lunch in Sausalito, having an orgy of crab, fish stew and meat, only one idea crossed my mind, crawl to my bed and have a nap… I decided  that this evening I wouldn’t be able to cook much (because I didn’t have this nap) and because of the left overs we […]

So here I am…. stranded between the piano and the jukebox at ‘Caffe Trieste’ …. why between the jukebox and piano? Because that’s where I can plug my computer. Regulars apparently know where the sockets are, there are only two in the whole bar.  So the computerists/working-from-home people are clustered around. Now I know.  The […]

Live in from ‘Cafe Greco’ in North Beach, I wanted to share my recipe of my french toasts rolls. ‘Cafe Greco’ which is definitely an Italian cafe despite its name has different coffées (‘L’Americano’ but also ‘Il Greco’ and ‘L’Africano’), playing Italian songs, old fashion that some would find cheesy, but that makes me feel […]

After the Filoli house in the south of San Francisco, we headed to the half moon bay to have a lobster brioche roll and coleslaw at ‘Sam’s chowder house’, insanely good with the amount of 3 or 4 whole lobsters in my sandwich and a coleslaw to die for. And we finished the afternoon in […]

San Francisco, where everybody says ‘absolutely’ or ‘of course’ in reply to your ‘thank you very much’, where everybody has the greatest white teeth I’ve ever seen, where everything is so well packed and gluten free but more importantly  where everybody is very very friendly. Peregrinations, cooking, getting lost are my everyday program. Meeting people […]

I have this great memory about London, when I arrived there on my own, 9 years ago and this amazing feeling of freedom I had. It was in June and it was hot,  London was on heatwave alert (always the case when the thermotmeter rises above 25°C), but for me, it was perfect. I had […]