L’Art de Bien Manger

  • #4 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Baking Cookies

    #4 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Baking Cookies

    There is a lot to be said about baking cookies where I come from. And I really mean a lot. There’s venerable ladies and fearless gents who spend days and days and days and some also nights and nights and nights by the oven baking up the most impossible cookies, ever delicious Christmas cookies, and Read more

  • #3 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Christmas Shopping

    #3 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Christmas Shopping

    For years now I have been making much decorum about The Christmas Shopping. Especially nowadays, when so much is delivered to your doorstep, and I count among those who are really glad that so much is available through the web, but Christmas Shopping, this is a tradition and must be done by venturing out to Read more

  • #2 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Snowflake Gazing

    #2 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Snowflake Gazing

    Snowflake gazing.  Ironically, the time historically meant for retrospection and contemplation, when all the work of the year was done, and the nights long and the days short, and ever so cold, and when you were meant to sit around the fire all day and tell stories and feed off of the fat summer months, Read more

  • #1 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Nostalgia

    #1 Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar – Nostalgia

    Nostalgia /nɒˈstaldʒ(i)ə/ A wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition.  Do you remember the scent of burnt cinnamon and apple caramel? Woodsmoke and the cold metallic smell of an icy winter’s night. The texture of the air when you enter the candlelit parlour. Walking on crumpled Read more

  • Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar: A Whimsical Tradition

    Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar: A Whimsical Tradition

    Back in 2018, out of a whim, I started the Les Poissonchats Wondrous Advent Calendar on my instagram account. The idea was to create a digital version of the much cherished Advent Calendar of my childhood for my followers, something whimsical and ephemeral and very very old fashioned. In the years that followed I chose Read more

  • Light Casting Shadow and Quince

    Light Casting Shadow and Quince

    We’ve run into a cultural situation where we’ve confused the symbol with the physical reality; the money with the wealth; and the menu with the dinner. And we’re starving on eating menus. Alan Watts Have you ever heard about Alan Watts? I find he’s probably the coolest of all contemporary philosophers. He says very clever Read more