Nibble Your Way Through Hidden Paris With A Famed Food Writer

I have to thank my foodie friend Linda M. for finding this wonderful Paris site and passing the link on to us.   The Paris Kitchen.com is a treasure of French culinary information, edited by Paris Food Writer, Wendy Lyn.  Wendy (an expat from the deep south) shares her most loved food-centric Paris sites including restaurants, neighborhood markets, bakeries, patisseries, wine shops, and off-the-radar gems known only to locals, in her lively blog.

What’s even more exciting, is that Wendy offers culinary tours and walks for travelers who are interested in gaining  a deeper understanding of Parisians and their incomparable cuisine. These insider tours will have you nibbling and sipping your way through Wendy’s little black book of French culinary excellence.  Offered for individuals or groups up to 6 people, Wendy’s tours include a Left Bank Food & Wine Crawl, Chocolate & Pastry Tasting Walk, Champagne Tasting and Appreciation, French Market Walks and more.  What could be more ‘delicious’ than getting a personal introduction to the best food vendors, chefs, wine and cheese shops, and world renowned bakers of Paris?  A walk with Wendy will surely give you insights into French life and customs that will enable you to shop and dine with renewed appreciation wherever you travel in France.

Not interested in the process – just want to dig into a  sublime meal at a buzz worthy Paris restaurant?  Sign on for an outing with Wendy’s inventive Paris Supper Club!  This is a twice monthly series of hosted all-inclusive prix-fixe dinners for six at the hottest eateries around the city.  The summer schedule has just been released and is filling up quickly.  Check your travel calendar and sign up immediately if you’ll be lucky enough to be in Paris on one of their dinner evenings!

So whether you’re heading to Paris soon, or just yearning to do so, enjoy the enthusiastic insights Wendy has to offer in her TheParisKitchen.com website.

2 Hours Of Laughs and Learning At Stonewall Kitchen’s Cooking School

Who would imagine attending the Stonewall Kitchen cooking school would be such fun! Gather your foodie friends and head to York Maine where you’ll find the home base for Stonewall Kitchen and it’s remarkable cooking school that offers bite-size cooking classes at lunch and dinnertime most every day.  You’ll laugh, you’ll nibble, you’ll sip a glass of wine, and come away thoroughly entertained!

Quick… what’s the perfect hostess gift? A sampling from Stonewall Kitchens of course.  Their tasty offerings have won a place in American kitchens as the perfect little splurge.  If you’re like me, you’ve mastered the Sesame Ginger Teriyaki Sauce, but are clueless about imaginative ways to use offerings like the Bourbon Molasses Mustard and Artichoke & Caper Relish. We clearly need a visit to the newly opened Stonewall Kitchen Cooking School in York Maine.  This has the makings of a perfect getaway day….Cooking, Eating, Laughs and Shopping!

Located just past the Kittery Outlet Shopping Malls, you’ll find Stonewall Kitchen in York Maine – a lovely seaside village perched on the coast a little more than an  hour north of Boston.  The new cooking school is equipped with state-of-the-art cooking classroom facilities and presents classes, demonstrations and visits with guest chefs for book signing opportunities.  Best of all the classes are offered in conjunction with delectable meals!  You can experience “Learn and Lunch” most days of the week, or “Learn and Brunch” on Sundays.  A slightly longer session takes place on Saturdays with “Skills Classes” taking place from 12:00 – 2pm, and then of course there are festive dinner preparations all week long.  The prices are very reasonable, starting at $30 per person for most lunch time lessons.  Here’s the current schedule of classes.  Seems to me this would make the perfect holiday gift – a sampling of sauces, a cooking class outing – and don’t forget the outlet shopping along the way!

If you’d like to relax a bit and spend the night in the York area, I can highly recommend the Apple Blossom Bed and Breakfast run by our friends MaryLou and Bob Erickson.  They’ll treat you like long lost friends and you’ll simply love the relaxed atmosphere of their historic country inn.

Sounds like a perfect excursion to me!!!

Pies On Parade – Take A Bite Out Of Winter

Few things in life are as deliciously indulgent as settling down with a warm slice of fresh baked pie on a snowy winter’s day.  Forget the resolutions to deny yourself in the New Year and commit instead to tasting some of the best pies in New England for the benefit of charity.  The Historic Inns of Rockland Maine are celebrating their 6th annual Pies on Parade Inn-To-Inn Pie Tour on January 24th from 1-5pm. Read more

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