Chez Jim: Jim Chevallier's Web Site

CHEZ JIM
Jim Chevallier's Web Site

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Chez Jim is Jim Chevallier's Web site. If it is difficult to define, well so, say some, is Jim.

The two largest groups of visitors to this site have typically come for the free original monologues and the film finance information. More recently, many have been drawn by information about the origin of the baguette, (one of the first of an increasing number of items here about bread and baking). Some are also drawn by bits of information on figures such as Tim Leary, the Beatniks and Louise Nevelson. But since its earliest incarnation in 1996, the site has also included genealogy information, looks at Paris and samples of fiction and poetry. In subsequent years, it has grown to reflect new interests, including self-publication of several books, further travel (cross-country, up to Northern California and to Saigon, among other places) and the 18th century in France (including information on the Bastille and a number of 18th century recipes).

NOTE: Many of the page formats reflect the changes in the site over the years, and its generally eclectic nature. To thine own selves be true...

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Where did the CROISSANT come from?
Read about kipfeln, viennoiserie and even the baguette in:

For more about the book and August Zang, click HERE.

NEWS:
France was barely born when a Greek doctor wrote a Frankish king a letter, telling him what to eat. A letter in Latin.
Now available in English, on Kindle:

Or visit this page for some samples.

Love wine? Love history?
Love the history of wine?
Here's one of the few comprehensive histories of wine in France, from the Gauls through the eighteenth century, in a new translation:

Now available:

Thirty TV Type Scenes for Two People

on Kindle and Barnes and Noble ebook

See TV Type Scenes for more.

Samples from BULLIES - a new monologues series for teens and adults - are now up.

Like bread? Read French?
Check out the new Dictionnaire Universel du Pain:

With articles on Austrian bread, the baguette, the croissant, pain de fantaisie, porteuses de pain, Viennese baguette and bread, viennoiserie and Christophe-Auguste Zang, signed....

Jim Chevallier

The latest addition to the site: a look at

18th century French breads.

Here are other recent changes:

BESIDE BOLIVAR: the Edecán Demarquet

And, inaugurating the bread and baking theme:

	The origin of the croissant
	Ten Fun Croissant Facts
	About the Baguette

Last Updated March 17, 2011