by Maggie Battista
Have you ever had sweet mint tea in a just-blossoming garden filled with bright blue furniture and bright-eyed strangers, all of you just waiting for the minutes to tick, tock, tick, tock away? I have. And the tea was so very sweet. It was honey-hued, the consistency of a sugar syrup. With a taste like
by Maggie Battista
Paris parties are the best sort of parties. They incorporate my most favorite food groups – cheese, bread, wine and sweets – and my first Paris party was not lacking for any of these. The cheese plate looks small above, but it was immense and attacked repeatedly. The homemade gougeres were, also, quite cheesy. This