L’Art de Bien Manger

  • Finding Mushrooms

    Finding Mushrooms

    The forest is a beautiful thing, and full of beautiful things too, and anytime I go into the forest, which isn’t very often though, I feel quite at home in it, quite myself, a little more myself than anywhere else, except for the sea in November perhaps. You can’t be anybody but yourself on a… Read more

  • Apple Season

    Apple Season

    Apple season is here, and it’s going to be a good one! We have an orchard on the lower terrace, not terrific, as neither soil nor exposure are really good for apple trees but then someone planted them and so they’ll have to stay. What with loads of rain this year and equally loads of… Read more

  • 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