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Lost In Cheeseland
www.lostincheeseland.com
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I'm a Paris transplant from Philadelphia who fell in love with a Frenchman and moved to Paris. Cliché, right? This blog is meant to cover some not-so-cliché topics and uncover some aspects of Paris (or France, for that matter) that you might not already know. Through food, travel, love and obstacles, I experience life in France.
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Franco File Friday: Phyllis Flick

One of the biggest differences I’ve noticed between the French and Americans, particularly as I add more to my plate, is that the latter have a tendency to dive into side projects and entrepreneurial...

2 days ago

Managing Paris Expectations

Winter, despite representing a painstakingly long, often melancholic and forceful entry into the new year, means a blank canvas of travel lays before us. To cure the post-holiday blues, we immediatel...

4 days ago 4 people like this

Franco File Friday: Marisa Williams

For some, all it takes is one brief experience abroad to induce immediate wanderlust. For others, the exploratory urge blossoms gradually and stems from childrens stories and linguistic inclinations....

5 days ago 1 person likes this

Nominated for the 2012 Bloggie Award!

I dont know who is responsible for the nominations but like last year, I feel honored to be in the running for a 2012 Bloggie Award in the category Best European Blog. Even more surprising than being...

05 feb 12

La Chandeleur | Crêpe Day!

One of the things I adore most about the French is that they pair food with almost any religious holiday, even if it doesnt really make much sense. February 2nd is the Catholic holiday of La Chandele...

01 feb 12 3 people like this

Where to Take Afternoon Tea in Paris (guest post!)

It’s 3pm. Your mouth is dry and you’re longing for a little hit of caffeine and sugar to tide you over into the evening… do you reach for a coffee? Well, you could… or you could make an occasion of i...

27 jan 12 2 people like this

Franco File Friday: Adam of Paris Patisseries

There is very little Paris Patisseries readers know about its opinionated author aside from the fact that he loves Paris and has a voracious sweet tooth. In fact, there is no "about me" secti...

27 jan 12

Playing Tourist in Paris

It has been six years since I was a legitimate tourist in Paris. Impressionable young eyes, tennis shoes and far too much color in my wardrobe to blend in with locals - I set off for six weeks of dis...

26 jan 12 7 people like this

Franco File Friday: Sion Dayson

Of all the expat bloggers I know in the community, Sion Dayson was the first I met long before we entered the virtual world. A mutual friend with whom she worked in New York introduced us and what st...

21 jan 12

Blend: Gourmet Burgers in Paris

If a Californian burger truck in Paris doesnt fit your style of dining theres yet another (sit-down) burger joint to have joined the wave of American comfort food imports. I realize that in telling y...

18 jan 12 2 people like this

Best Burgers in Paris: Le Camion Qui Fume food truck

If youve been following me over the last year, you know I have an insatiable hunger for cheeseburgers and a never-ending mission to share the best in Paris. Ive listed some of my favorites in Paris H...

17 jan 12 3 people like this

Franco File Friday: Meg Zimbeck of Paris By Mouth

Anyone in Paris with an internet connection and a love for dining out knows and follows Paris By Mouth, a collaborative food website edited by renowned food writers, yet little is known about its fou...

13 jan 12 2 people like this

Lost in Shanghai and Beijing

Ever since we boarded the Swiss Air flight back to Paris Ive been trying to process our experiece in China. Two drastically different cities  - Beijing, the cultural and administrative epicenter...

12 jan 12 1 person likes this

France Making it Harder to Become French

Becoming French - no longer as easy as a nap in the Tuileries! I figured this day would come. It was inevitable when Sarkozy made it four years instead of three that a foreigner would have to be marr...

10 jan 12 1 person likes this

Shanghai >> Paris

19 hours of travel later on Swiss Air and Shanghais strikingly modern skyline, lack of central heating, street vendors and toothsome dumplings already feel like something out of a dream. Back to fami...

06 jan 12

Paris 2011: a Year in Review

I dont quite know whether to classify 2011 a success, a failure or simply a mixed bag of troubling, joyous, painful and encouraging non-stop action. It was as tough, if not more so, than 2010&nb...

04 jan 12 1 person likes this

Franco File Friday: Nichole Robertson of Little Brown Pen

2011 has been a good year for so many of my favorite people. Frenetic, stressful, and perhaps even anxiety-inducing but overwhelmingly positive nonetheless. This is particularly true for Nichole Robe...

23 dec 11

Lost In Cheeseland Goes to Shanghai!

No, Im not moving to China but I am making my very first trip to Asia in 6 days! Mr. C and I will be visiting a friend who moved to Shanghai for work and will be joined by other friends from Paris to...

19 dec 11

Verjus Restaurant and Wine Bar

Theres nothing like accessible, down home American comfort food in Paris to cause expats to buzz wildly. Mention otherworldly buttermilk fried chicken and the drooling is immediate. The only pla...

16 dec 11 1 person likes this

Franco File Friday: Alisa Morov

{Mad Hatter Cake Photo: Carams} I knew of the French recipe books Meringues and Cupcakes long before I actually met their vivacious American mastermind. Author of three delicious books (mos...

16 dec 11 2 people like this

Franco File Friday: Elaine Sciolino

Lifelong francophiles have a tendancy to employ a certain rhetoric when they express feeling perpetually beguiled by France. The key to this fascination is seduction. We find ourselves seduced by the...

09 dec 11 5 people like this

Paris Bakery: Du Pain et Des Idées

There are certain memories that feel like they belong to someone else. Memories so distant you cant be sure if they really happened or if theyre merely a construction of your imagination, created to ...

06 dec 11

Franco File Friday: Jane from La Cuisine Paris

One of the great things about entrepreneurship is being able to start over - to go from a fixed structure to creating your own rules; taking what you learned and the skills you acquired from a tradit...

02 dec 11 2 people like this

Thanksgiving in Paris

Thanksgiving in Paris happened twice and was full of: Beautifully dressed tables.Chicken. Southern biscuits.Feline entertainment and cuteness. Laughs. Friends.Champagne. My pumpkin bread. A raspberry...

28 nov 11

Franco File Friday: My Folie à Deux

"For the love of travel and food". I knew Id like Jen Lacedas blog My Folie à Deux from the moment I saw the tagline. Travel + food topics housed in one blog couldnt be more up my a...

26 nov 11 1 person likes this

Paris in November ....

Is 55°F? Not usually, but weve been blessed (and sunkissed) by the météo-gods with some abnormally mild November temperatures. This time last year in Paris, the bone-aching cold had already settled i...

22 nov 11

Franco File Friday: David Lebovitz

This man hardly requires an introduction. Pastry and chocolate connoisseur, formerly of legendary restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA., David Lebovitz is as much a famous face...

19 nov 11 1 person likes this

Strolling the 7th arrondissement

After brunching at Coutume Café a couple of weekends ago, I strolled, relatively pain free, for the first time in weeks. Fleeting though it was, walking through Paris with a subtle chill in the air, ...

15 nov 11 1 person likes this

Franco File Friday: Une Petite Pause

I havent missed a Franco File Friday since I launched the series back in March and I was hoping that I could keep it going at that rate through the end of the year. But health comes first. Instead of...

11 nov 11 1 person likes this

Making French Desserts

When I was in New York last week, I heard about the "macaron invasion" on every television in every taxi I took. With the recent opening of a Ladurée outpost in Manhattan and a spate of Ameri...

09 nov 11 2 people like this

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