Sometimes I like to test the kids in my food appreciation classes with a food I’m sure they’ll find repulsive. Not long ago it was squid. This week, I brought them chicken liver. And just to challenge them even more, I urged them to pick up with liver in their hands and feel it. Pretty […]
Hard to believe, but it’s been 37 years since I enrolled in the foreign student program at the Paul Valery University in Montpellier, France. It was one of the best years of my life. Unlike the United States, where you sign a lifetime mortgage for a higher education, tuition in France even for a foreigner […]
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Our destination was the Benedictine abbey at St. Martin-du-Canigou, about an hour from Perpignan in the Pyrenees, but a curious thing happened when we stopped in the nearby town of Vernet les Bains to try and mail some post cards. The post office was closed, naturally. But we literally walked into an old friend of Bob’s, […]
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