Most bands that perform a Tiny Desk Concert need to adjust their setup and sound to accommodate the setting’s limitations. Malian kora player Ballake Sissoko and French cellist Vincent Segal are an exception.
Watch the masterful duo perform a transfixing set combining African and European strings.
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It’s time to get your arms around that chocolate soufflé
There’s no question about it: Cooking French food is labor intensive, time-consuming, demanding, and often for busy Americans, impractical. At the pace of today’s society, one in which TikTok recipes comprising only instant coffee, sugar, and water are considered cooking, it’s a wonder people still bother with dishes as extravagant as sole meunière, gougėres, galettes, or lobster thermidor. But they do. Because there’s nothing like them. French food is buttery, eggy, saucy, timeless, and always delicious. Here are the ingredients, books, tools, and accessories you need to foray into French cooking. [ . . . ]
Source: Products to Help You Master French Cooking – Condé Nast Traveler
The Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday abandoned plans for a postponed 2020 edition in June or July, but said it will still explore other options
The Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday abandoned plans for a postponed 2020 edition in June or July but declined to give up entirely, saying it will explore other options.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday extended France’s national lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, banning all public events until mid-July. That essentially dashed the hopes of Cannes organizers who last month said they would aim to move the annual May event a month or two.
“It is clearly difficult to assume that the Festival de Cannes could be held this year in its original form,” the festival said in a statement.
The film industry is increasingly expecting Cannes, the world’s largest film festival and movie market, will be canceled. But the festival on Tuesday said it’s still examining other possibilities that might allow Cannes to carry on in some fashion [ . . . ]
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