Frenchie and the Neglected Pleasure of the Art of Conversation
“Americans often expressed surprise in my presence at the fact that French people, “who claim to be very big on manners”, are themselves so “rude”: “they interrupt you all the time in conversation,”...
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Heard at a dinner party: “I can’t get myself to buy bread ahead of time. It needs to be fresh. I’d rather go bread-less than bring a day old baguette because all of the stores are closed today.” The...
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“This is one of the great ironies – we might even say great deceptions – of wine history, for conventional wisdom tells us that Dom Pérignon was the delighted inventor of champagne. [...] Yet it only...
View ArticleFrenchie and the Neglected Pleasure of the Art of Conversation
“Americans often expressed surprise in my presence at the fact that French people, “who claim to be very big on manners”, are themselves so “rude”: “they interrupt you all the time in conversation,”...
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