Negative Space: French
- City of Lost Children
- This French movie is filmed like a portrait in four dimensions. The disk includes both the anamorphic widescreen and the pan and scan version, as well as a commentary by the director and Ron Perlman. A beautiful movie, well worth seeing.
- Fahrenheit 451
- A very good adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel of the same name. “Firemen” have evolved from people who put out fires to people who create them—in order to burn books. Fireman Montag begins to question this existence after a run-in with a young girl on a train.
- French Bistro Cooking
- Review of French Bistro Cooking, with a recipe for Onion Soup Gratinée.
- French Cooking Simplified With a Food Processor
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Review of French Cooking Simplified With a Food Processor, with a recipe for Carrot Soup.
- How French Children Learn to Drink
- Barbara Gallatin Anderson argues that the French are thick when it comes to wine, and that people don’t understand that when the government says wine is bad for children, that also includes watered-down wine. More likely, they just don’t trust their government.
- King of Hearts
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An incredibly quirky movie about an insane asylum in World War I: the townsfolk all leave as the invading army comes, leaving the inmates to take over the town. And a Scottish ornithology expert mistaken for an ordnance expert to interact with them while trying to find out how the Germans plan to blow up the town.
- La Cuisine Française
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Review of La Cuisine Française, with a recipe for Crème aux Abricots.
- An Old French expletive and The Three Musketeers
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In both versions of Dumas’s Three Musketeers that I have access to, the translators chose to give up and not translate one word due to its total incomprehensibility.
- Pains Spéciaux & Viennoiseries
- Review of Pains Spéciaux & Viennoiseries, with a recipe for Couque carrée aux fruits.
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- King of Hearts•
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An incredibly quirky movie about an insane asylum in World War I: the townsfolk all leave as the invading army comes, leaving the inmates to take over the town. And a Scottish ornithology expert mistaken for an ordnance expert to interact with them while trying to find out how the Germans plan to blow up the town.
- Pains Spéciaux & Viennoiseries• (hardcover)
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This is a great French baking book, but you will need to know French. It’s also very hard to find—this link will probably come up 404 on Amazon.
- La Cuisine Française• (hardcover)
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A very nice cookbook, in French; compact and well-illustrated.
- French Bistro Cooking• (hardcover)
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One of my favorite cookbooks, because it makes seemingly complex dishes simple. (John Varnom)
