Hi there, and welcome to Southern Fried French. I’ve lived in the French countryside in southern Burgundy since 2003 with my husband Ron and a series of cats. Moving from our home in Charleston South Carolina, we were lucky enough to land in the Château de Balleure. This was the home of our now dear French friends Nicole and Pierre Balvay, where with their help I’ve been re-learning to cook in the French way and cheerfully struggling with the French language. After three happy years in the château, we renovated an old farmhouse nearby, where we lived for 13 years. In 2019 we moved a bit north to the centre ville of Beaune, in the Côte d’Or.
That’s our châtelaine, Nicole, with me in the photo at the right.
In Charleston, I worked as a regional magazine editor for Meredith Publishing (Better Homes & Gardens and Traditional Home). After moving to France, I turned to writing for magazines in both the US and the UK, including Better Homes & Gardens, France Magazine, and Living France. I’m the author of the book How to Learn a New Language with a Used Brain. And I’m the the keeper of the castle at Southern Fried French.
