Salon d’Agriculture – a favorite Paris cultural event

One really cool thing that my husband and I enjoy doing in Paris is visiting the annual Salon d’Agriculture.  An agricultural fair.  I have to admit, my husband had to drag me to it the first time.  I thought, why would I want to see a bunch of cows.  Or pigs.  Or whatever.  I’m a…

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Restaurant Review: Brooklyn Burger Bar (Hamburg, Germany)

Friends had warned us that Brooklyn Burger Bar was painfully hip.  So I should have been ready for the clipboard menus, industrial-chic walls, neon sign behind the bar AND 1950s schoolroom chairs.  (And having lived in New York City for ten years, including a year-and-a-half in Park Slope, Brooklyn, I know a thing or two…

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