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Cheap Ingredients, Expensive Lessons
What starts as a story about beans turns into something else entirely — how time, thrift, and small habits quietly shape a life. Plus: details on…
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Keith Christiansen
From Forest to Frying Pan
A short list of wild foods I’ve foraged, cooked, in the US, UK & France
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Keith Christiansen
Deep France, Wild Food: Finding Terroir Outside Vineyards
on foraging, field knowledge, and learning to trust what’s around you
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The City as Dollhouse or The Turgot Map of Paris
In 1739 Louis Bretez drew every rooftop courtyard and chimney in Paris creating a portrait so detailed it was all but useless
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Keith Christiansen
The Myths of French Peasant Food
How a simple Provençal stew reveals the long journey behind France’s most “traditional” foods
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Keith Christiansen
The Small Miracle of Bongarant
Chapels, memory, and the strange history of color
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Keith Christiansen
Peaches on the Pavement, Apples in the Grass
Notes on fruit, neighbors, and the habit of ignoring what’s right in front of us
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Keith Christiansen
What the Fuck is Chanson, Anyway?
How France’s most poetic genre turns heartbreak into performance—and why it still sounds familiar if you grew up on soul and sad ballads.
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Keith Christiansen
Songs I Brought With Me, Songs I Found Here
A look back through my own writing on French music—from NYC to Marseille rap to lost and found disco crates
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Find Home Elsewhere
Find Home Elsewhere
Food, music, and life abroad — noticing what others leave behind. Deeply researched stuff you won’t find elsewhere. Break your algorithm. Stay a while.
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