Sylvie lives, savors, travels and writes about it. Happy and busy this year: A life-changing meeting with Paul Bocuse; fragrant lamb tagine cooked outdoors in the High Atlas; picking flaming saffron threads in the Swiss Alps and reflecting on the sugary legacy of the Jewish settlers on Barbados.

Read her in English in National Geographic Traveler, Departures, Food Arts, Time Out New York, Travel & Leisure, Town and Country, Air Canada’s On Air, Passport, France Guide, The Southampton Press, and Our Town—or in French in her hometown newspaper, Geneva’s Le Temps. On the web, Sylvie has her say through her blog and as FrenchieFoodie on Twitter. She contributes regularly to Time Out’s The Feed where she keeps up with New York chefs. Find her on Gael Greene’s site, The Insatiable Critic; on Narrativemagazine.com; and read her restaurant reviews on Gayot.com.

Sylvie has put her palate to work while testing recipes for New York Times food writer Florence Fabricant’s Park Avenue Potluck I and II, and the 2009 edition of the New York Restaurant Cookbook (Rizzoli). This winter, look for Living Art: At Home with Flowers, which she co-wrote with genius floral designer Olivier Giugni (Atria, Simon & Schuster).