Claudia Jacob

Jan 15, 2025 | judymacmahon.substack.com | Keith Van Sickle |Claudia Jacob

Bonjour francophile friends
 I’m thrilled you’re here again this week — Bienvenue/welcome. The week between Christmas and New Year is oft the perfect time for reflection but also for taking a break at the end of the calendar year. For this reason, I’m sharing lots of wonderful and diverse reading material. What’s happening in MyFrenchLife Magazine - new articles.

Oct 23, 2024 | monocle.com | Claudia Jacob |Simon Bouvier |Rory Jones |Ed Stocker

LGoing off-piste with Stockholm-based outdoor clothing company Peak Performance, new perfume brand To My Ships’ scent of success and more. The ENTREPRENEURS laura kramer on... Growing off-pisteAn eagerness to expand can take leaders down slippery slopes if they don’t have a clear direction. Luckily for Sara Molnar, the president and ceo of Sweden-based outdoor clothing company Peak Performance, navigating challenging terrain comes as second nature.

Oct 23, 2024 | monocle.com | Naomi Elegant |Ivan Carvalho |Claudia Jacob |Georg Roske

LFrom a new beach club on the sandy shores of the Aegean to a freshly revamped hotel that Parisian writer Honoré de Balzac once called home, we round up some of the best hospitality spots across the globe. The year’s not over yet... ScorpiosBodrumSoho House & Co’s Scorpios beach club has opened an outpost on Turkey’s Bodrum peninsula. Alongside Med classics including lemon and courgette linguine, the menu features local favourites such as cig kofte (meatballs) and ariani (a yoghurt drink).

Oct 23, 2024 | monocle.com | Gregory Scruggs |Claudia Jacob |Sophie Mancini |Gabrielle Graingé

LIn cities from Amsterdam to Grand Rapids, chefs are adding French-inspired touches to their menus – while in the cuisine’s mother country, residents are being treated to late-night deli fare and ‘cidre’ from bittersweet Brittany apples. We survey the season’s top tables. Au RêveParisCafé Au Rêve opened its doors in Paris’s Montmartre area in the 1920s, quickly becoming a popular haunt of French literary and musical icons. In 2019, however, it closed down.

May 22, 2023 | bonjourparis.com | Claudia Jacob

23 May 2023by Claudia Jacob    5   Souvenirs are laden with paradox: for some, they’re an affectionate reminder of a place worth remembering. The cynics among us will see their value as tokenistic – an object which could never supersede our own priceless memories. Collectors will hoard them as though they’re trophies of their worldliness; minimalists will see them as superfluous.