Helpful Hint #12

The wise pieton (pedestrian) pays attention to where she puts her feet and avoids unidentified liquids. Especially if they are in the form of a stream and have originated against a wall or other vertical object.

Helpful Hint #39

There are few food debacles which can not be made palatable - or at least helped along a great deal in that direction - by frozen herbs. Buy them in the frozen foods section of your grocery store. Monoprix in particular has good ones for cheap.

Helpful Hint #25

Sablé (french shortbread cookie) paired with orange is yummy. Sablé and dark chocolate is yummy. Sablé with orange AND dark chocolate?

Not so much.