L’Art de Bien Manger

  • An Afternoon in Plombières les Bains

    An Afternoon in Plombières les Bains

    Plombières les Bains, well, is not a real place somehow. It’s something from a film perhaps, or a book, from a exquisitely dark story about when people dressed properly and entertained polite conversation while delighting in nightly stabbings and poisoned champagne. Belladonna. You know those long thin daggers that look like luxurious letter knives, hidden… Read more

  • Salicorne with fresh Shrimps

    Salicorne with fresh Shrimps

    I made salicorne spaghetti with garden tomatoes and shrimps the other day, oh so delicious! And probably ever so incredibly healthy, I’ve written up the recipe for you further down. Autumn has definitely arrived out here, and strong winds and rain are sweeping over the land. It still is very green though and only in… Read more

  • My Village

    My Village

    Yesterday I took a stroll through my village soaking up all the warmth and balm of those last days of summer. I was with my camera and just took in what I saw, the magic of every day life. It is raining now outside and already the shift is palpable, our cats are lounging inside… Read more

  • Fried Flowers

    Fried Flowers

    We’ve taken last week off and enjoyed staying about the house, go swimming and doing this and that and generally being very lazy, given we’ve been having another bunch of those fabulously splendid riviera-weather-sunny-and-all days. We also paid another visit to our darling upholsterer who has an absolutely wonderful nostalgic shop in the middle of… Read more

  • Workshop Update

    Workshop Update

    2022 moves like a whirlwind through my life, things we thought were lost are found, things we thought are settled are suddenly shifting, and me trying to move with the tide and gather not too close to the edge where the wind blows strongest. So, as many of you probably are already aware of, we… Read more

  • The Napoleon Tarte

    The Napoleon Tarte

    The thing with running culinary retreats is that you get to know very cool people. Like really cool people. Really really really cool people. Dashing dapper folks. And sometimes they’re just exactly the right kind of exceptional and sometimes they’re just exactly the right kind of witty and sometimes they’re hitting it and are all… Read more