Tag: croissant

• Continental Breakfast for Two, si’l vous plait…

  If you could have dinner with any fictional character, who would it be? “Only in England is the coffee so atrocious. On the Continent they understand how important it is for the digestion that it should be properly made.”  The Big Four, Hercule Poirot on English coffee Before I retired from teaching middle school English,…

  michardillo

  July 24, 2026

  Essay

  Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, books, British, continental breakfast, cozy mystery, croissant, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2832, David Suchet, England, English, fiction, food, Hercule Poirot, literature, Miss Marple, Murder on the Orient Express, mystery, novel, reading, Sunday roast, tea, teacher, teaching, writing

• Book Review: Death and Croissants by Ian Moore

  Cozy mysteries are my favorite genre, and I especially like those set in foreign locales, but for some reason this one sort of dragged for me. Although set in the Loire Valley of France, it didn’t feel very French to me, perhaps given the protagonist and MMC is British, but he is supposedly fluent in…

  michardillo

  August 1, 2024

  books

  B&B, British, cozy mystery, croissant, France, Loire Valley