Why might it be harmful to promise scores of health-interested readers that practicing yoga will lead to a whitewashed “yoga bod”?

This blog post contains my full script for my Keynote Speech at World Languages Day at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Hello, my name is Lacey Gibso...

In this article, written for Eating Disorder Awareness Week, I describe my struggle with anorexia and the conscious shift it took to begin the pathway of hea...

Here’s a peek into my favorite specialty coffee shops in Paris. Last summer, needed desperately to decompress from a failed PhD program in Austria. My academ...

For the final Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down for coffee with Caroline, France’s Champion Barista and Wholesale Manager at Coutume Café, to discus...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Thomas, the co-founder of La Fontaine de Belleville to discuss his mission to bridge the gap between...

The Winter 2018 issue of Gastronomica features my research paper “A Tale of Two Cities: Differences in Wine-Drinking Culture in Nice and London”. Here is a s...

The sugary sparkle of macarons bejeweled the summer that I lived in poverty in Marseille, France. The city was a glaring contrast of rich and poor, and I exp...

One of my favorite activities as a girl was to play tea party. Each day at precisely 3’o’clock, I would dress my teddy bear to the nines, apply lipstick to m...

As a child, chocolate was my weapon of choice. I lived with desserts on lock-down in a nutrition-conscious home. I nibbled at my main meals, which were eithe...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Gaël, the co-founder of Matamata to discuss the rise of the co-working space and the friendship at t...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Nicolas, the Founder of KB Cafeshop to discuss the rise of the superbarista and the simple things in...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Nico, the Founder of Holybelly, to discuss his intention to bring a little taste of Melbourne to Par...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I spoke with Anselme, the owner of Ten Belles, to discuss the ways in which wine may be the answer to the specialty ...

For this Paris specialty coffee feature, I sat down with Paul, a roaster at Café Lomi, to discuss the city’s coffee scene and the ethical implications of the...

The Paris Coffee Revolution has built upon the café culture of the city to include space for specialty coffee. Characteristically burnt espresso is being rep...

My initial impression of Shakespeare and Company was far from love at first site. As a 14-year-old on my first trip to Paris, I couldn’t comprehend my father...

« Qu’est-ce qu’un vrai café ? » (“What is ‘true coffee’?”) was the opening question of a two-hour training at La Caféothèque. In any other context, I would h...

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young (wo)man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable...

I felt butterflies fluttering wildly in my stomach as I approached the door for my fateful blind date. The waiter at the reception said that he was approachi...