By Matthew Nilsson Standing on the shores of Paris’ Left Bank, tucked away on Rue Gît-le-Cœur, I check my map, […]
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Hotel du Pont Royal: Paris, France
Posted on March 27, 2013
By Kelsey Liebenson-Morse “There is never any ending to Paris, and the memory of each person who has lived in it […]
Happy Birthday, Julia: Celebrating the Centenary of a Culinary Icon
Posted on August 15, 2012
by Amanda Festa One of my most vivid memories of childhood is the distinct voice of Julia Child wafting, or […]
Van Gogh & The Dead in Arles, France
Posted on June 1, 2011
It’s late October, but the sun beats down on my bare head with the ferocity of an August heat wave. I stand at the entrance of Les Alyscamps, Elisii Campi, the Elysian Fields. It is the final resting place of Roman dead in Arles in the South of France. A cloying floral scent weighs heavily in my throat, the scent of thousands of funerals over thousands of years. Tall straight trees line the walkway like sentinels. Or prison bars. I’m alone at the gates to the great necropolis and I’m in the open air, but still I feel suffocated.
