L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar: A Whimsical Tradition

    Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar: A Whimsical Tradition

    Back in 2018, out of a whim, I started the Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar on my instagram account. The idea was to create a digital version of the much cherished Advent Calendar of my childhood for my followers, something whimsical and ephemeral and very very old fashioned. In the years that followed I chose… Read more

  • Light Casting Shadow and Quince

    Light Casting Shadow and Quince

    We’ve run into a cultural situation where we’ve confused the symbol with the physical reality; the money with the wealth; and the menu with the dinner. And we’re starving on eating menus. Alan Watts Have you ever heard about Alan Watts? I find he’s probably the coolest of all contemporary philosophers. He says very clever… Read more

  • What we Ate in Tonnerre

    What we Ate in Tonnerre

    We’ve been on another one of our legendary road trips through France, mainly to get our dream wood fired stove, but then as goes with our legendary road trips, these come with the most interesting sides included. The stove really is a dream, a big black beast with brass fittings and it stood in a… Read more

  • Autumn at the Castle and Magret de Canard

    Autumn at the Castle and Magret de Canard

    Autumn has safely arrived at the castle and I can’t say I’m disappointed, so far it’s given us a splendid show of dramatic weather, torrential rain followed by golden sunsets, crisp and misty mornings and watery light flowing in through the kitchen window. We’re now having the wood fired stove going all the time, which… Read more

  • Summer of Old Gals or Drinking Wine with my Back against the Warm Stones of the House

    Summer of Old Gals or Drinking Wine with my Back against the Warm Stones of the House

    Life lately consists of cooking preserves, restorations and kitten. So far I’ve made a variety of confitures, pickled cucumbers, marinated zucchini and baby egg plant, oignons confits, peach cider, verjus and tomato. We will eat all those things in a couple of months, when the world will have so much changed, and summer be a… Read more

  • Affogato Napoleonato

    Affogato Napoleonato

    The summer is slowly coming undone at the seams, still strong and vigorous in the middle of the day, yet there’s a hint of autumn weaving through its frilly ends, later, when the sun goes down. In the morning, I get to see the sun rise again. I know it’s rising for it’s the first… Read more