Inaugurated in 1825, the Canal Saint-Martin stretches over five districts of eastern Paris. Once essential for transporting goods, it’s mainly used today by tour boats and pleasure cruises. Along its four kilometres, the canal with its nine locks lets both Parisians and tourists alike discover the French capital from a different perspective. FRANCE 24 went on board.
Source: Discovering Paris’s Canal Saint-Martin – You are here
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The young French-Italian singer Lea Desandre sings the playful aria ‘E un foco quel d’amore’ from Handel’s pastoral cantata Aminta e Fillide.
She joins Sabine Devieilhe, Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm on an album of Handel’s Italian cantatas that Gramophone chose as its Recording of the Month for December 2018.
“Both singers have unblemished voices of beautiful quality,” wrote Richard Wigmore, “Sabine Devieilhe, as Aminta, pellucid and free-soaring, Lea Desandre with a dark flare in her high mezzo … They interact vividly in recitative, and in their arias strike an ideal balance between refinement and intensity.”
This may be the best way to eat shrimp — ever.
Make more than you ever think you could eat because, trust us, you will eat them all and be begging for more.
The shrimp are grilled then bathed in a garlicky, buttery, cheesy (but not too cheesy) sauce that is so darn good be sure you have some French bread on hand to sop it all up.
Peel and devein the shrimp, but leave the end of the tail on if you’d like.
Recipe is by Jay Martin.
Sauce:
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, very soft
Pinch of salt
Answer: Both
Twitter said early Friday that a post by President Donald Trump about the protests overnight in Minneapolis glorified violence because of the historical context of his last line: “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
The phrase was used by Miami’s police chief, Walter Headley, in 1967, when he addressed his department’s “crackdown on … slum hoodlums,” according to a UPI article from the time.
Pas De Merde 