Baguettes, Quartettes, and other distractions...
That East Coast Blizzard did manage to affect even a small radio show in the Midwest. One brave co-host did the show, while the other wandered the snowy streets of New York City...
Speaking of which: New York is secretly France's new New World colony, or that is at least the conclusion I came to wandering around and gawking at the proliferation of French restaurants, bakeries, and dry cleaners around 8th Ave. and 14th where I was staying, and in the meat-packing district. There, several chefs obliged me with answers to some entirely unexpected questions about baking ingredients...I must have caught them off guard, since New Yorkers are not thought of as the most warm and fuzzy people East of the Hudson... To top it all, two of the fellow riders on the Supershuttle ride to the airport spoke French, convincing me that if I can't move back to Paris, then I could just move to Manhattan...
Back to the Music!
We are both thrilled with a new CD sent to the station by the Baguette Quartette. Imagine, one of us lived a short drive (by California standards...) away from Berkeley not so long ago, and I didn't hear them or of them... You, on the other hand, might have already heard them on Putumayo's French Café collection, but their 2004 release, titled Toujours, is a fun excursion down memory lane to the entre-guerres and even après. We are obviously curious to know what's on the other albums... in the meantime, Champaign-Urbana and our internet listeners are surely having a blast listening to this one.
Stay warm this weekend, if you are in Illinois or wherever this cold front is catching you and have an otherwise great week!
Speaking of which: New York is secretly France's new New World colony, or that is at least the conclusion I came to wandering around and gawking at the proliferation of French restaurants, bakeries, and dry cleaners around 8th Ave. and 14th where I was staying, and in the meat-packing district. There, several chefs obliged me with answers to some entirely unexpected questions about baking ingredients...I must have caught them off guard, since New Yorkers are not thought of as the most warm and fuzzy people East of the Hudson... To top it all, two of the fellow riders on the Supershuttle ride to the airport spoke French, convincing me that if I can't move back to Paris, then I could just move to Manhattan...
Back to the Music!
We are both thrilled with a new CD sent to the station by the Baguette Quartette. Imagine, one of us lived a short drive (by California standards...) away from Berkeley not so long ago, and I didn't hear them or of them... You, on the other hand, might have already heard them on Putumayo's French Café collection, but their 2004 release, titled Toujours, is a fun excursion down memory lane to the entre-guerres and even après. We are obviously curious to know what's on the other albums... in the meantime, Champaign-Urbana and our internet listeners are surely having a blast listening to this one.
Stay warm this weekend, if you are in Illinois or wherever this cold front is catching you and have an otherwise great week!
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