Jeanne Koré Salvato

food

ave you ever bought an avocado?  Of course not! Come with me and you will see how an avocado ideally makes it into your kitchen. Facing several rows of neatly placed Haas avocados, I stand in line at Les Halles du Val d’Or, a vegetable stand on the shopping...
five minute holiday

five minute holiday

e are all doing too much waiting—for the pandemic to be over; for a vaccine to arrive; waiting for the end of those awful tallies rising.  Wait, what? the students would say. I thought Godot was all about waiting.  Well, yes, and well, not always.  The...
Innisfree

Innisfree

The Lake Isle of Innisfree will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace...

let’s get out of Dodge

For us, “Dodge,” meant working over at the Archives in Suresnes, where the English lectures of Inayat Khan were being assembled and published chronologically.  It also meant picking the child up from school at noon, feeding her and often friends, and returning...
back to French school gangnam style

back to French school gangnam style

he hour is nigh:  the first of September is the very day when school kids return to class this year in France.  It’s called la rentrée scolaire or the re-entry to school after summer vacation, which is referred to as les grandes vacances, the big holidays....