by Steve Rosoff | Dec 16, 2021 | Antiques
My first memory of train travel was with my mother going from Lausanne, Switzerland to Milan, Italy. We didn’t realize it until we were comfortably ensconced in our compartment that we were on the first leg of the Orient Express. My mother was a confirmed rail...
by Steve Rosoff | Feb 6, 2019 | Food and Culinary
“You can always judge the quality of a cook or a restaurant by roast chicken, While it does not require years of training to produce a juicy, brown, buttery, crisp-skinned, heavenly bird, it does entail such a greed for perfection that one is under compulsion to...
by Steve Rosoff | Dec 12, 2018 | Food and Culinary
Did you know that the Emperor Charlemagne enjoyed roasted chestnuts with a glass of wine? Neither did I. Or that chestnuts were an indispensable ingredient of Talleyrand’s table? The citizen minister believed the most important quality of a diplomat was to be a...
by Steve Rosoff | Nov 15, 2018 | Travel
…assuming you’re not looking for Voltaire, or any other work of French fiction. Traveling east on the mellifluous sounding rue Saint-André-des-Arts, one reaches a lock (read: door) at No. 70 , which leads to a small, shallow tributary of red carpet wide enough for one...
by Steve Rosoff | Oct 18, 2018 | Antiques
There are few settings as dramatic and glorious for a flea market as the one on place Charles David in the sleepy town of Villeneuve-les-Avignon. Perched high above the square (more rectangle), you can see the ruins of a papal palace and to the immediate east, the...
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