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Review: Madame Bovary
Published by My French Life, 7 February 2012.

Thoughts on the eternal, beautifully excruciating text, and its 1991 filmic realisation by Chabrol, with no reasonable attempt to curb my unbridled affection for Flaubert.

Amoureuse de la France et du beurre
Published by My French Life, 12 January 2012.

My personal love affair with France, which was not lifelong, as it is for so many people, but rather acquired through travel, food and a certain boulangerie.

Le culte du vrai macaron
Published by Le Petit Journal, 16 December 2011.

I ponder the ascent of the macaron in Melbourne’s culinary landscape. Features interviews with Melbourne’s macaron royalty, Jospehine Acker Tuil of Macarons by Josephine and Maylynn Tsoi of La Belle Miette.