I love chestnut soup. This is my chestnut soup recipe that I repost each year when chestnuts appear at the market. In a large pan, add some olive oil,…

There is a winner and many creative answers. Thank you for liking the French Antique Guessing game. It makes my day, honestly it does, to find an old thing that could be interesting for us to figure out. Yesterday I…

    Okay, I am a sucker for French antiques, you know and I know it. It is a passion, it is my drug of choice, it is crazy. Ever since I was a kid I have loved old things.…

Vanessa wrote to say,     "So grateful to know that my family in Guiuan is ok! Such a relief! Thank you Lord…. However, they lost everything and the situation is getting worse every day as people are starting to…

  Chelsea's friend Vanessa is French – Filipino. Vanessa's mother's family lives in the area that was struck the hardest by the typhoon. Since the typhoon hit, Vanessa's family has had no news except that 95 percent of the area…

    As I walked by an antique dealer's stand I heard glass breaking looking down I saw a broken inkwell. "Zut!" sighed the dealer, as he looked at the broken inkwell on the ground. Bending down he picked up…