cuisine

The Accursed Bean

Today Chinese class got pretty heated, and it was all thanks to beans. We were arguing what use of the bean is more felicitous—the sweet bean pastes of Chinese cuisine or the savory bean dishes of Latin cuisine. It was our teacher and our exchange student from Shanghai versus myself and my friend Alex. Alex and I were arguing that beans are ...

by Student, George H.

Cuisine & Conversation – Florence Session 1

By Simone Onnis, Cuisine & Conversation Instructor, Abbey Road Florence Staff My name is Simone Onnis and although I am Italian by birth, I now live in New York City.  I would like to begin by saying what a great pleasure it has been for me to guide the students participating in the Cuisine & Conversation course.  The whole group ...

A Cuisine Competition

Ciao! On Wednesday evening, my football team and I arrived back to the apartment sweating, exhausted, and ecstatic to be the victors of the so anticipated soccer match. After a morning of lessons, we were treated to a well-deserved trip to our local pool, where we touched up on our tans, dipped our toes into the cool refreshing water, played ...

Cooking at St. Jean Cap Ferrat

Abbey Road's program in St-Laurent-du-Var has provided us again with a beautiful excursion. We spent the morning as we normally do, eating breakfast with our host families and then heading to class. These classes consist of outings into St-Laurent to speak with locals and exercises to practice our grammar, writing, and speech. After our ...

Merci, France

I have finally enjoyed the pleasure of going to French beaches - and they are even better than I thought! The water is perfectly cool and clear; the big rocks on the shore double as a hot rock massage as you lie out in the sun- c'est parfait! I could spend hours and hours floating in that water, and hopefully I will throughout the course of ...