I just got back from London where it seemed they were digging up every road that I tried to drive down. It took me 54 minutes to drive 2.5 kilometers through the West End! So you can imagine my thoughts (**!!!##??) when I returned to my town in Provence and found they were Fish Soup and Paving Stones[Read More]
Recipes
Art and Cauliflowers in La Côte d’Azur
Last Saturday we went to a vernissage at the Beddington Fine Art Gallery in Bargemon. Bargemon is a little town perched on a hill in the Var, above St Tropez about 2 1/2 hours from where we live. The Vernissage was for Lume, who is a young, up and coming French Artist based Art and Cauliflowers in La Côte d’Azur[Read More]
Eating and Dressing
I have recently been thinking how clothes are like food; or rather dressing habits are like eating habits. There are clothes you wear everyday and clothes you wear to work and those you don for special occasions and it's the same with food. French women never leave their Eating and Dressing[Read More]
Pied de Cochon
I had just been talking to my sister Sabrina on Skype and she told me how she had cooked a delicious recipe for Basque ham hock with lentils. Both she and her husband are on a mission to lose weight (her daughter is getting married in April, and like Carol Middleton, Sabrina is Pied de Cochon[Read More]
Oranges and Lemons
The other day I asked my sister Sabrina what came to mind when she thought about Provence and she said lemons. Everyone loves lemons, especially this time of year, she said and urged me to write about them. Coincidentally, David Lebovitz had just written a piece about citrus Oranges and Lemons[Read More]
