L’Art de Bien Manger

  • 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

  • Poissonchat goes Vacances!

    Poissonchat goes Vacances!

    Oh have we not longed for the stillness of these cold and bleak afternoons, when the harsh sunlight is smashed into a thousand sparkling rays by the icicles hanging low on the eaves. Shiny white flatlands in the valley, black frozen mirrors of little mountain pools and lazy cows glancing out of a barn door with their… Read more

  • Behind the Veil

    Behind the Veil

    Once upon a time, in a forgotten corner of eastern France, surrounded by deep forests, peaceful waters and tiny little old fashioned villages, les Poissonchats took up their lodging in a sleepy old cottage that eyes a river to the south and a narrow village street to the north. They have been busily breathing back the life… Read more