Day: November 11, 2012

An American In Paris Probes The French Psyche

AAPA member Harriet Welty Rochefort, author of "French Toast" and "French Fried", continues her probing into the French way of life with her third book on the subject: "Joie de Vivre: Secrets of Wining, Dining, and Romancing Like the French" (St. Martin's Press, Oct. 2012). Analyzing the various forms that French expressions of joie de vivre take, she comes up with a few theories of her own.  For…


UNESCO Leader Appeals For US To Resume Funding

  UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova highlighted her organization's financial plight when she met with a dozen AAPA members at a breakfast meeting at UNESCO headquarters on October 11. "UNESCO needs all our members," she said, calling it "unfair that UNESCO is caught in the Middle East conflict" over a US law requiring a halt to payments to international organizations that admit Palestine…