That happened to me once much closer to home. My sister who is a cheapstake gifted me an influence and extremely cheap man-purse. I threw it away not so much because of the object itself, but because of what it said about my sister and her relationship to me. I now send her a list of cheap stuff I’ll actually like.

We add the extra step of threading ... a thread... in each orangette, dunking it in melted dark “chocolat de couverture” (Dark, bitter, non-greasy chocolate designed to cover up and cling to stuff, then firm up when cooling, we use the Valrhona one).

I’m French and fluent in Spanish... On the one hand lots of vocabulary is similar and grammatical concepts are usually equivalent; on the other hand there are deep differences too: Spanish is pronounced as it is written while French isn’t, nouns’ genders are switched around, conjugations are different, pronunciation…

A few tidbits: my junior-high German teacher told us that a language is learned not even from mouth to ear, but from mouth to mouth... right before our graduating 2-week trip to Germany... message received ! It worked wonders for my Spanish too.

“We’ve all had an experience where we have put a bite of food in our mouths and known immediately it needs to come right back out,”

The great thing about cocoa is that it goes weel with a lot of things, so I like to mix it up. The basis is cocoa, whole milk, bit of sugar, pinch of salt. Then comes the fun: make it thicker with corn starch or wheat flour; give it a quick with a dasj of coffee or pepper; make it exotic with banana, coco cream (coco,…

My family is more into sweets:

I twice almost got mowed down by a motorcycle, while crossing the street on a pedestrian crossing.

Those specs you list for the $300 Moto G5+ are also available in the $150 Xiaomi Redmi Note 4. Guess which I bought, and am very happy with ?

Whaaaaat ? Any human being !

Firefox on Android accepts all the same addons as on the Desktop, which I think is even better, even if just for ad/track blocking.

Cold shower to cut the sweat off.

I much rather be clean and fresh, so I shower. Plus I think in Europe people make more of a difference between nudity and sex than in the US.

Violence never solves anyth...

If your focus after a breakup is “winning social media”, you don’t deserve any better and are in for a few more worlds of pain.

Looking at divorce rate but not marriage rates and not adultery rates paints a very partial picture.

I don’t know if pies are like Madeleines and I won’t ever be able to like any pie more than my grandma’s, but to me a pie is a bare brisée crust with fresh apple slices arranged on it, optionally a few drops a lemon and/or a bit of sugar, and that’s it.

I got 2 pro tips:

Raclette !

Alcohol mostly makes me tired, and tired makes me grumpy. So I rarely drink - only when I want to go to bed, or sometimes for the heck of it.