Passion4Paris

Stuffed squash blossoms

August 16, 2021August 17, 2021Cooking/recipes, UncategorizedLeave a Comment

Herbed cheese-stuffed squash blossoms before frying.

Meet Diarmuid

July 7, 2021July 12, 2021UncategorizedLeave a Comment

The new love in my life is a red & white beagle.

Tosca. Puccini’s opera based on Frenchman Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play, La Tosca.

November 7, 2020August 27, 2021Art & Culture, UncategorizedLeave a Comment

Per SF Opera’s “The rest of the story Tosca’s historical background” “Sardou (1831 – 1908) would be all but forgotten in his native France, were it not for the extraordinary success of Puccini’s opera based on his 1887 play La Tosca.

While honeymooning in France I fell in love again, this time with France and the French lifestyle. I became a passionate Francophile and eventually went back to school for a BA in French and Francophone Studies.

We are living in truly Interesting Times. Finding joie de vivre is, to me, more important now than ever. I have been fortunate enough to live in San Francisco, aka the Paris of the West, and to have studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. This blog is about those aspects of my life and travels that resonate with that love, in ways grands ou petits. I hope you find something here that brings joie de vivre to you, too.