There will be a Medicinal Plant Tour on October 12, 2025 in Monterey, California on Fisherman’s Wharf.
Information about the event follows reposted from the Monterey County Weekly:
Reposted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Msrrying France
Brown Pelicans Soaring Home at Nightfall Photo in Pebble Beach, California by Ruth Paget
Patient Ruth catches a brown pelican on an updraft of wind on the way home at nightfall:
Photo and text by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
Laurent’s grandfather was a wine merchant and his grandmother ran an epicerie in the country. An epicerie is like an upscale convenience store. Mamie’s epicerie most definitely sold wine vinegar, which is used in the vinaigrette for salad a la Tourangelle.
I went to The Farm in Salinas, California and bought organic lettuce and an heirloom tomato for my salad. I went down Main Street to Star Market and bought Humboldt Fog goat cheese. Nob Hill makes a store brand chèvre goat cheese, which helps pay employee salaries that I also buy.
Today, I put those ingredients together to make Salade a la Tourangelle at home, which is pictured below:
This salad is super easy to make. We ate slices of apple caramel crisp pie for dessert from The Farm as well, which is open year-round for bakery purchases.
Wine vinegar is also a no-food waste product par excellence.
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
The Monterey Tequila Festival is being held on October 18, 2025 in Monterey, California reposted by Ruth Paget
This event looks like fun for people who can legally drink alcohol. Details from the Monterey County Weekly reposted below:
Reposted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
The University of Chicago Press Free E-Book for October is The New Promethius: Faith Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siecle by Courtenay Raia.
People interested in Victorian England might like this nonfiction book about the era.
Information about the book follows:
Reposted by Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
My husband Laurent and I did our recycling of tin cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles at Star Market in Salinas, California this morning.
We used our recycling money as a coupon towards buying Wisconsin cheddar cheese and Cypress Grove California Humboldt Fog cheese, similar to Saint Maure Chèvre from Tours, France. (Cypress Grove is located in Humboldt County California).
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Cheese, chocolate, and apple caramel crisp pie from The Far.m. We drank Joffrey’s Tatiana Bayou Beignet coffee with milk along with “lunch.”
We ate sourdough flatbread and baguette with the cheese.
The apple caramel crisp takes about two minutes to warm up and oozes caramel for this pie from The Farm.
Salinas, California has the ingredients for a fall lunch when cool weather comes back.
(Note: My relatives in Wisconsin of English descent ate cheddar with apple pie and coffee or Darjeeling tea. I am continuing the family tradition with local ingredients in Salinas, California.)
(Note: The bakery at The Farm is open year round.)
By Ruth Paget author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
I made a delicious organic salad with items I bought at Nob Hill Supermarket.
I used mini red leaf and green leaf lettuce from Tanimura and Antle in Salinas Valley, Roma tomatoes, and California avocados from Southern California.
Gathered ingredients - the walnut and olive oil come from California, top.
