L’Art de Bien Manger

  • The Putru

    The Putru

    For sure, you must have heard of the Putru. It is about the size of a weasel but it has only two, infinitely long and shapely legs while feathered wings replace the forelegs, also its tail, which is rather lengthy in relation to its tiny body, is feathered. One might mistake it for an oversized… Read more

  • Brocante, j’adore!

    Brocante, j’adore!

    Brocante, j’adore!, once said an otherwise very tongue-tied Englishman living in France when asked where les Poissonchats could go treasure hunting, and after days of communication going down pretty much to good morning and good night, we had a very lengthy and very animated and very funny conversation around all stuff old and used and… Read more

  • Snipping and Sewing

    Snipping and Sewing

    Naked arms in the gentle breeze, grass tickling your feet, plunging into early summer, an athmosphere for cool silks, flowing gowns and flower crowns in your hair. This calls for “just a little snipping, then a little sewing, and it’ll all be good as gold”, as the norn said in Neil Gaiman’s story “The Ocean at… Read more

  • Spring, if you please

    Spring, if you please

    It just feels marvellous to have a first lazy Sunday afternoon spring apero after these long and dark winter months, chin chin! Read more

  • For trees make a silence even in their noise of wind

    For trees make a silence even in their noise of wind

    “For trees make a silence even in their noise of wind” is one of the most beautiful sentences by D.H. Lawrence, so unexpected and yet so true. We like to think of it when things unsettle around us and we imagine ourselves rooted firmly in the ground like a tree swaying gently with the wind. Read more

  • Lumières!

    Lumières!

    January most probably is the coldest and darkest and greyest and sternest and very much the most undelightful month in the year. So what else is there left to do but to make January-life sparkle with a little bit of Lumières! Read more