Playing With My Food ~
A journal about food, thought, travel, and life; by Chef & Raconteur Chaz French.

The Spy Who Fed Me…

The news is all atwitter the last 24 hours about the late Julia Child's time in the OSS. It's not been a secret for a long time that she worked in the OSS in a clerical role, it was long suspected that she was more than a secretary, and the CIA … [Continue reading]

Why Merlene Should Win…

Dear John Chow, I think it's great that you're having this contest, and while I would personally love to go I probably can't get the time off, but I'm entering your contest anyway, and if you choose my entry I'm giving it to Merlene Paynter of … [Continue reading]

Changes are afoot…

So, you may have noticed, I haven't exactly posted in a while... There's a bunch of reasons, some good, some lazy, and some... well life has this way of throwing curve balls at you... I'm working on a number of ideas, none of which are related to … [Continue reading]

Sunset Walks At The Louvre

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Crazy non-stop action…

I've been unable to post since arriving in Paris, because we have been going non-stop. So far I've taken close to 1,000 photos, all of which require some amount of editing before I get them up. I'm about to head out the door again for the evening, … [Continue reading]

Look out Paris, here we come…

By the time this posts we'll be somewhere over the Atlantic. The French being such kind and wonderful people have planned a general strike of the Bus & Rail services for our arrival. We are honoured that they would take this occasion to honor us … [Continue reading]

Quiet Time – The calm before the storm

So, I've been very, very quiet. I know this. It's not that I haven't been cooking, I have. I just haven't taken time to write up what I've been up to. I made a lasagna for Mother's Day, which I intend to share the recipe for, I just have to make … [Continue reading]

Lamb burger with roasted lemon and Tzatziki

The other day at the store I noticed they had some ground lamb and decided to grab some, figuring I'd make a burger of some sort. I let the idea bubble in my head as I went through the store and decided I would most definitely want some slices of … [Continue reading]

Spring…

It's finally arrived where I live, temps are ranging from the mid 50's to mid 70's and everything is blooming! Normally this would also mean that I'm stocking up on Flonase, Zyrtec and a handful of other drugs to combat my allergies to all things … [Continue reading]

Brioche French Toast

My friend Jill pointed out this morning that due to my last name any toast I make is French toast, so we're subtitling this recipe "Frenchy French Toast!" Jill also claims to have told me about putting orange juice in the batter over a year ago, … [Continue reading]