Showing posts with label foie gras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foie gras. Show all posts
Saturday, November 10, 2012

200 diamonds, 40 gift tags, and how to devein a foie gras.

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    The magazines I buy in France often come with a little freebie attached, a small cadeau stuck to their cover with some magical sticky s...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Foie gras season is upon us...

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     In addition to knitting patterns, "before" and "after" home decor stories and a beauty column--" oups, une rid...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Street food in Montmartre

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     Held each October, the Fête des Vendanges in Montmartre celebrates the very small amount of wine actually produced right here in Paris....
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Monday, April 18, 2011

The Good Life at the Château de Cavanac

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    Kate, our daughter, is staying with us so, for a treat, we booked us all into the Château de Cavanac, a few clicks south of Carcassonne....
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Check Out This Blog--Even If You Don't Speak French.

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     I must, I MUST, I really must start a list of the blogs I regularly visit (a vow that's right up there with I must post more regula...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

'Tis the season

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   We must have already taken last week's supply of " pub "--the printed  publicité that shows up in our mail-box--to the dech...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

More finds at the Pamiers flea market

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We drove to Pamiers this morning through a mist so thick and wet that most cars had their headlights and windscreen wipers on. When we got t...
Friday, December 26, 2008

The Christmas Feast

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Our good friends John and Lee-anne had invited us for a lunch that started a bit after 1 p.m. and saw us wandering home through the village ...
Monday, September 29, 2008

Fête de la Noisette--the lunch

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The annual lunch that celebrates the hazelnut is one of the high points of September. As communal meals go, this is a record-breaker in term...
Sunday, August 31, 2008

Original Chocolate Sin

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Shouldn't it be called "faux gras"? This disk on the left is made of solid chocolate--chocolate ganache coated with white choc...