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I don’t think he’d find it „authentic“ enough TBH.

Eater Munich is surprisingly on point. I’m just glad it’s not a popular foodie destination as the places they call out are rather small and neighborhood-y. German children love liverwurst. I’ve developed a taste for it myself since moving here though the stuff we get is extremely high quality.

Gorgeous country. And not as expensive as other European destinations. Enjoy!

Oh, and now she’s taking photos of her food…

Oh, she liked Breizh Cafe as well. We did that the first night as we got in late and I wanted something not too challenging. But she loved all the food, despite being generally picky. And the French rivaled the Italians on kid friendliness. Wasn’t excepting that at all.

Loved it. She wanted to buy a beret and a striped shirt and carry a baguette under her arm. Managed to dissuade her. 😅

Short fall break trip with a 1st time in Paris kid who really wanted to do all the classics. Highlights were Arnaud Nicolas (because Eiffel Tower), Les Enfants Rouge (French/Japanese fusion) and Recoin (evening hipster wine and small plates.) Also Grande Brasserie which was better than I would have expected. Hipster ramen with too long a wait near the Louvre, and some random Bao place in Marais because we couldn’t get in at Pluto on short notice. Even though it was late October, almost impossible to get in anywhere without a reservation. I don’t typically like to plan my schedule too much, but was glad I had good evening choices locked down. Clothes shopping infinitely better than in Germany, unfortunately.

I watched the Netflix documentary a few months ago, absolutely incredible. RIP.

At some point she was big again with the 90’s / aughts hipster crowd - my brother found an old album at a used record store and played it while visiting my parents - my dad got all misty eyed - apparently he had also been a fan, in the 1960’s.

Sneak, nothing to say really except please stick around, as long as possible. I love reading your writing and also how would I know what music to listen to or which wines to try?

https://youtu.be/D3dQMEmbpdA?feature=shared 🙂

This year was too dry, then too hot, then too wet, then too cold, then too dry again. I sort of gave up. The only thing that did spectacularly well this year was the tarragon.

My kids aren’t interested but their babysitters have quoted it back to me. I watched it occasionally as some of my roommates were fans but it wasn’t really my humor. That said I can impress the young‘uns as I have attended a live screening (VIP no less.) A good friend was friends with one of the writers…

The elite thing to do though is to send the teens to a British boarding school for a semester or so.

No. Or let’s say, they are mostly for expats or people who want a bilingual school for whatever reason, or rich kids who are less academically inclined. Private colleges are also less academically selective.

My kids are at a really excellent (public) gymnasium, a short bike ride away. Only criterion was making the cutoff grade which was easily done. The challenge is more about maintaining the GPA to stay in and their Abitur grade when they get out. We went for a traditional Humanities gym - the science curriculum is at least as good as the science focused gyms (they participate in Olympiad) but tend to be more demanding because Latin/Ancient Greek weeds out a lot of families. So yes basically they are reinforcing the class structure but it’s not something I’m going to be able to solve personally and certainly not through our school choice. (We did however skip the Ancient Greek option...)

Not a recipe but Jefferson Amaro. Highly recommend.

Congratulations on the reviews! Love that you’re serving Grawü, surprised they even have enough volume to be distributing in the US. Spent a lovely afternoon in Cermes there with a friend who knew Dominic.

It would be particularly disturbing if the outrage is about “white rock” being cluelessly un-PC, rather than simply how decoupled such assertions are from reality.

I'm back but now I can't move. Any way I can recover my old user name? I think the email was the one from grad school, which isn't forwarding.