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Corsican Summer and a Birth Announcement
In an attempt to prolong the summer – I’ve been getting some great little poires Williams (Bartlett pears) in the CSA panier for the last couple of weeks, and their appearance has made me wistful –...
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Fromages de Brebis Corses
Friday afternoon, I went on a cheese hunt. It took me deep into the 20th arrondissement, to Place Gambetta. The area is full of neat regional specialty shops, and the rue des Pyrénées, in particular,...
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Miel de Corse
One of Corsica’s largest crops is the chestnut. As such, they feature prominently in dishes both sweet (cakes, candied chestnuts) and savory (various breads, a type of “polenta”), as well as in the...
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Balbuzard Café
All summer I had my eyes peeled for Corsican restaurants in Paris. (July was the originally-planned Corsica month, but then the spur-of-the-moment trip to Rouen happened. Fortunately, it turns out...
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The Best Thing I Ate in Corsica
You might expect me to wax rhapsodic about the array of sheep’s and goat’s milk cheeses, or gush about the intensely flavorful charcuterie, or rave about the freshness of the just-caught fish, but no....
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