L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Summer Bellini Drinks and Romance

    Summer Bellini Drinks and Romance

    There is a certain kind of romance in those hot sultry August days, don’t you think, a certain kind of enchantment that makes the world glow, shimmering, very light and free. The romance of medieval tales, intertwined with myth and legend and magic, old and all encompassing, romance outside time. Quite unlike the rest of… Read more

  • Rillettes de Truite and Les Grandes Vacances

    Rillettes de Truite and Les Grandes Vacances

    Hello Les Grandes Vacances! It’s the summer holiday season here in France, probably the second major event in the year, next to Christmas, and definitely as sacred and venerated! It’s a wonderful time, as things perceptibly start slowing down from now on, and there’s a pointed leisureliness in the air in the afternoons. It can… Read more

  • A Rhubarb Cake and Summer

    A Rhubarb Cake and Summer

    I know I know rhubarb season is over in June but then I just do have to give you the recipe to this cake I made the other day. I’m still without any proper potager, so I went back to the garden of my old house to get the rhubarb, splendid. Anyhow there’s a silver… Read more

  • Finally Back and How to Eat a Strawberry

    Finally Back and How to Eat a Strawberry

    I’m back on track! After waiting for my new laptop for seemingly ages plus one or two IT hick ups, it’s all functioning again. Plus it’s my old model, a petite golden macbook, which still fits into my pretty Maison Baluchon Pouch. Phew. It was nice in a way to be without it for some… Read more

  • Mad Geese and Tipsy Damsons

    Mad Geese and Tipsy Damsons

    What with our little trip to Provence we took back spring to Chemilly, and here we are in the middle of THE most spring month, the month of May. I’ve been having some very eventful weeks lately with the appearance of my cookery book Mad Geese and Tipsy Damsons in English as an e-book. I’m… Read more

  • Avignon and a Savoury Easter Cake 

    Avignon and a Savoury Easter Cake 

    Have you ever been to the Avignon area in the South of France? Whenever we can manage we drive down there before Easter, to fetch spring home. It’s just the most marvellous time of the year, with the cherry trees in flower and torrential wisteria everywhere, the very first real strawberries of the season and… Read more