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L’Abbaye de Frigolet
The town I live in, Tarascon,borders the Rhône River and lies between two mountain ranges, Les Alpilles (mini Alps) to the south and Les Montagnettes (little mountains) to the
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A visit to Lilamand, Artisanal makers of Fruit Confit in Saint-Rémy de Provence
Christmas in Provence is steeped in tradition, both religious and culinary. It’s the culinary ones that mainly survive today and one of these is the eating of glacé, or
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Sud de France, The food and cooking of Languedoc by Caroline Conran
Sud de France is my kind of cookbook. For a start, it is all about the food and culture of Provence. OK, it is in fact about the food
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Honey from Provence
With all the media attention in the last week about blue honey – for those of you who missed it, bee-keepers in the northeast of France were shocked to
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Yotam Ottolenghi comes to Bath
Since spending more time in the UK, The Artist and I have started a monthly ‘mystery tour’, where one of us organises something, without telling the other what it
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A Late Provencal Smoothie
People often ask why I blog. It takes up a lot of my time and I don’t make any money from it; in fact it costs me money! Everyone
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