Remembering My First Galette Des Rois

Covering Charlie Hebdo was overwhelming, but it introduced me to French hospitality and this tradition.

A Galette Des Rois. By Steph Gray, 15 janvier 2011 (CC BY-Sa 2.0)

My first experience doing any type of foreign correspondent work began on January 8, 2015, and under the grimmest of circumstances. Our family had moved to France five months earlier from California, and I had quit my job at the Los Angeles Times. Landing in France without much of a profes…