The Paris Traveler

 In my ongoing quest to get through Mireille Guiliano’s Top 20 To Dos  in The City of Lights I take us to to-do #7, “enjoy the towering plateau de fruits de mer seafood platter at Le Procope”.  Hmm…it is here that the two of us part ways.  
The charming exterior in the photo, is indeed said restaurant, the oldest in Paris.  Opened in 1686 by a Sicilian of all things (could be one of my relatives, actually!) Francesco Procopio, this establishment became the place for fashionable men to drink that “exotic” drink, coffee, which had only been served in taverns up to this …read more

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Oodles has been written about French women–their philosophy on life,  how they achieve that “I just got out of bed, forgot to run a comb through my hair, found a top that just happens to fall off my shoulders in just the right way and I may or may not have makeup on but no one will ever know” look that is pretty hard for many of us to accurately copy.  But they do it so well and up until a few years ago, how it was done was a tightly guarded secret.  That is until one of “them” decided …read more

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