Kitchenette Paris -- Cook, Travel, Daydream, Repeat

🇫🇷🍋 Winter's survival is guaranteed when Parisian pastries revivify the senses. It's citrus season, and lemon tartes and pink grapefruit-Campari pies will save me from the grey skies and dread of winter. A little day-dreaming also helps -- completely inevitable in Paris. 🌸 🇫🇷🌸 In every episode, I share stories about "la vie en rose." Part memoir, part travel stories, part homage to the deliciou...

Culinary-Snobs-A-Plenty in cities like Paris, San Francisco, or New York. In Paris, at every corner café terrace I am reminded that I can't fit in (nor want to) with the cool kids who LOOK SO GOOD sipping on scotch on the rocks or downing whole fresh oysters in one swift move. I reflect on how some of us may not be so high-up in the pecking order of fancy eaters - it's an ego-crusher. In every epi...

I reflect on the ego-bruising experience of buying beauty cream at Parisian pharmacies, and the imaginary ailments that seem to afflict all my French neighbors. I conclude that grandma's advice to eat soup when under the weather works for me, and make a delicious French Pot Au Feu soup. In every episode, I share stories about "la vie en rose." Part memoir, part travel stories, part homage to the d...

Summer markets in Paris incite my complete surrender to the deep pleasure of French flavors and scents. As the season comes to an end, I reminisce about my produce man, his melons, and the indulgence of sultry summers in France. In every episode, I share stories about "la vie en rose." Part memoir, part travel stories, part homage to the deliciousness that satiates human appetites, Kitchenette Par...

Subscribe to the KITCHENETTE PARIS NEWSLETTER to keep in touch with me, and to find my recipes. Every day feels like a fancy wedding reception in Paris. Church bells ring around the clock. The urns at the gardens overflow with pretty geraniums. The buildings, so ornate, resemble wedding cakes filigreed with buttercream flourishes and gold leaf. Cute couples (of all ages) make out on public benches...

Find my recipe for CHOCOLATE CAKE at cocinita.substack.com, and while you are there subscribe to my newsletter. Written, directed, and produced by me, Dany Bells. Theme Music: "The Dance" by Kyle Cox Paris France Celebration Chocolate Cake Art Museum Travel Paul Rozin language flavor taste gourmet culinary mythology Heraclitus american cities travel tourism pleasure terroir arrondisement beauty Th...

Facing the Culinary Shadow in Paris. Where Food, Delight, and Eros meet in the City of Light. It's all about food here. And love. And passions. And the existential yearnings that this magnificent city ignites. In each episode I share one of my stories from navigating this city as a cook, historian, writer, and former restaurateur. From Paris with love. Recipe on my newsletter at cocinita.substack....