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Many years ago, way before Instagram or even email, I would consume Architectural Design and Interior magazines from overseas with a voraciousness. One time, I found an article in a magazine about a beautiful, eclectic, character-full Parisian apartment. There was an immediate knowing, there was just something about it, almost a deja vu or a sense of […]

The year was 1994 and I had just completed my law degree. I had studied French in high-school and for my under-grad, but I longed to talk, think and dream in French and so I enrolled at our local branch of Alliance Francais. One time before class I was looking haphazardly at the student notice […]

This is a photo of Scarlett’s Versailles, an edible version of the iconic French palace. This cake is an ode to the last fourteen years of my annual cake creation for my daughters, Saffron and Scarlett. Like a child’s doll-house, we constructed this as a cross-section of the palace, surrounded by the golden royal fence, […]