Bon Appétit!

We tweeted about it yesterday: cafe and restaurant terraces have reopened in France! Even though we are still wearing masks, we hope it’s the sign the pandemic will be over soon! https://twitter.com/SamaGazette/status/1395046086201409542?s=20 Let’s start with the famous Hotel Negresco in the city of Nice: ‘For our reopening, our Michelin-starred chef Virginie Basselot is proposing a revamped room-service menu that not only features ...

This is a Twitter Bazar with a lot of French / France in it! Let’s start with Chef Pierre Sang and his famous bibimbap available to take out at Pierre Sang Express restaurants in the 6th and 11th districts in Paris! A ne surtout pas manquer si vous pouvez vous y rendre ! https://twitter.com/pierresang/status/1384900355113291783 Solo exhibition by japanese MADSAKI will be on view at Gallery Perrotin in New York City. Curator and art critic ...

This new Twitter Ba(a)zar is dedicated to France, its famous museums, its many places of interest and some creative ‘alternatives’ (you will understand what we’re refering to soon enough). The country is not under lockdown anymore but yet it’s still impossible to come from abroad to visit it. So until everyone will able to safely travel to France again, we selected tweets allowing you to (virtually) discover the country! ...

Lockdown in France has been lifted today allowing non-essential shops and businesses to reopen although bars and restaurants will remain closed until further notice; they have been fully shuttered since March 15 and their owners are reeling from the shutdown (read our post about online platforms J’aime Mon Bistrot, Sauve Ton Resto, Bar Solidaire). As a consequence, some of them are setting up food trucks and started takeaway services to help maintain a ...

Restaurants and bars in France have been hit hard by the coronavirus lockdown, and even if French government is in favour of the reopening of all retail outlets once lockdown is lifted, restaurants and bars won’t reopen on May, 11… The industry is seriously threatened and some establishments are in dire situation, many owners having very low cash levels. They had to lay off their staff and put their businesses into enforced hibernation. Hopefully ...

Yes, you read well: Nicolas Sarkozy has banned cheese from the menu at the Elysee Palace… You know how much we like cheese on the Sama Gazette, and maybe you remember our posts: Try Raclette For A Warming Winter Dinner (one of Max Dana favorite dishes) or French Cheese: Camembert, Brie, Roquefort, Chevre… illustrated by two great drawings by Pete Fowler. So when we read Sarkozy had banned cheese, we were chocked! The French President adheres to a ...

New recipe! And we hope you like mushrooms. This is a vegan recipe by Harini, a.k.a Sunshinemom. Her blog Tongue Ticklers is great for finding vegan recipes and even if you are not (vegan), these recipes can satisfy anyone. Harini always explains what she does and why she does it: In today’s dish I haven’t done much to mask the mushrooms.  Instead I chose to flaunt them.  I believe that when you treat your vegetables with respect, they taste ...

This Avocado and Crab Soup is more of a summer dinner party but now Autumn has come over here, we wanted to give it a try. The recipe comes from Epicurious and when we said we gave it a try, we actually made the soup. And it was delicious! Preparation: Mix crabmeat, celery, chervil and lemon zest in a bowl. Cover and chill crab salad. Halve and pit avocados; scoop flesh into a blender. Add vegetable stock, crème fraîche, lime juice, kosher salt, and 1 ...

Do you like éclairs? Do you like strawberries? And basil? If you do then you will really enjoy this post about Strawberry Basil Éclairs. We found the recipe on Chasing Delicious; just look at the photo and you will be drooling over for days! Chasing Delicious is a great website for recipes and we enjoy reading their articles: always humourous and cooking seems so easy… But it is not. We tried several times and nobody here could even make a ...

This is our second rendezvous: C’est la vie in France but this time (our first post was about Films Open French Wounds From Algeria) we have selected an article about food. As prood members of the Sama (formerly Epicurean) Fraternal Society, we enjoy good food and we were happy to read on the Huffington Post: Try Raclette For A Warming Winter Dinner by Regina Varolli. Some of you may wonder what is ‘raclette’, so here is an introduction by ...