1989 Charles Heidsieck

Champagne Immersion

The second week of this course should be called Champagne Immersion.  We are in Reims, home of bubbly, and the stuff practically flows down the streets in rivers.  Not that…
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Remarkable Rungis

We are on the bus at 2:00am sharp.  Probably going out for dinner, drinking lots of wine and getting home at 11:00 was not the best strategy….but after a short…
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Protecting Camembert

Have you ever had Camembert?  I am sure you are all nodding.  Thinking, “ Yes, but not the most interesting of cheeses.”  That’s what I was thinking when I saw…
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Green onions

First day of school

Walking up to the Cordon Bleu, I was feeling a little nervous.  A little edgy.  I wonder if Julia Child felt like this the first time she entered these hallowed…
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