In France, the Christmas festive days are spent inside with the family, but for le réveillon, or New Year’s Eve the doors are flung open and all and sundry are invited in. Everyone must have a party to go to and if they don’t they go to a restaurant or hotel to celebrate New Years Day in Provence with Aigo boulidou, or Garlic Soup[Read More]
Christmas Eve in Provence
Christmas Eve is the most important date in the Provençal calender. It is when the family gets together to eat le gros souper, or the big supper before going to Midnight Mass. Most people I know skip the Mass but still get together en famille to eat the supper. Like most Christmas Eve in Provence[Read More]
The Christmas Fair and La Foire aux Santons
It seems that every town now has its own Christmas fête and Tarascon is no exception. But besides stalls selling vin chaud, fresh crêpes, Santa costumes for babies, (wonder if they'd fit the dogs?) Christmas decorations, cakes and biscuits, foie gras, etc., here The Christmas Fair and La Foire aux Santons[Read More]
Painting with chaux
I was talking to a friend the other day about how as you get older, you are less interested in fashion, or dressing yourself and more interested in dressing your house and creating a beautiful home environment instead. In my younger years my favourite shops were dress shops and Painting with chaux[Read More]
Shaping your Kneads, Making Bread
When my mother came to the UK in the early 60’s (via Turkey and India, but she was in fact German) she was dismayed at the bread available at the time. She was used to an array of rye, wheat, full grain, sourdough, in fact hundreds of different types of bread that she had grown Shaping your Kneads, Making Bread[Read More]
