Catching up on Paris before I fly🛫

A birthday surprise and a bunch of sweetness before it's au'revoir again (for now)

Bonjour! Bonjour!

Tomorrow I fly back to America, to my little family, Joshua, Linling, Gemma and VV, to my friends and to communities frayed by differences. So many people have told me stories of deeply strained relationships with partners and parents, neighbors and colleagues. I can’t remember a time like this (thank goodness!) and only hope that it won’t last so long that children will come to think of discord and disrespect as common, or worse, acceptable. I don’t think anyone wants that. I’m not sure how we are going to knit our ragged edges smooth again, how we will replace hate with kindness and fear with acceptance and generosity, but I’m going to set my heart to it. And I’m going to cook and to bake for myself and for others. It’s what I know how to do and, like you, what I love to do.

José Andres, who founded World Central Kitchen, understands the power of food and can speak about it better than anyone I know. He gives us this advice in his recent newsletter:

“Every day we sho…