The Earful Tower: Paris

We're making a new children's book: Here's how we do it

Sep 29, 2025

We're making our fifth children's book, and it's the most Parisian one yet. In fact, there are some major changes to this one, so we decided to open the curtain and show you how we do them.

Lina talks about her illustrating process and I talk about how I wrote this one - and why I changed the whole style.

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Bistros to boulevards: How Paris was shaped by its World Fairs

Sep 22, 2025

Meet Charles Pappas - Mr World Fair. Charles likes nothing more in the world than a Universal Exhibition, especially if it's one of the seven that were hosted in Paris. In fact, he's written the book on the topic.

I met him on a road-side terrace at Harvest cafe in the 11th arrondissement to talk Paris, Haussmann,...

My love letter to the Parisian food markets

Sep 15, 2025

After an eventful visit to the Aligre markets in the 12th arrondissement, I came home to share my love of the French food markets with my wife Lina.

Here's an energetic, honest, and in-the-moment recount of what happened when I went shopping for dinner ingredients.

The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson, his...

Meet the woman behind the top cooking classes in Paris

Sep 2, 2025

Meet Jane Bertch, a Chicagoan who has called Paris home since 2005. She started her life here as a banker, but made the unusual pivot to running a cooking class (which is now the hugely popular La Cuisine Paris). And now, she has written a memoir about it all: The French Ingredient.

She joined me in the studio to talk...