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Bronze Power

Bronze Power

Bronze Age Man possessed the power to change the colour of rock!

Last Updated ( Friday, 01 May 2009 07:28 )

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A family day out…

A family day out…

We should enjoy our precious snow in France, even though it seems that the UK has ground to a melodramatic standstill – as I type it is the dark days of February 2nd – with Radio 4 offering the standard doom and...

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 February 2009 13:10 )

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The Night of the Long Knives

The Night of the Long Knives

In the tyre-treads of the Monte Carlo Rally through the Col de Turini from Sospel to La Bollène–Vésubie

The title of this article is far from unique. It’s sinister application refers to a pivotal moment in the ...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:10 )

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Colorado of the Luberon

Colorado of the Luberon

Four months into my newly acquired Provençal life, I decided to embark on another one of my many adventures in the Luberon.  I'm never alone in these wonderful endeavors: I'm always accompanied by my boyfriend Bry...

Last Updated ( Saturday, 01 November 2008 17:48 )

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Vallée des Merveilles

Vallée des MerveillesThe many visitors who swarm to the Riviera don’t often seem to think about escaping to the cooler climes and magnificent scenery of the Mercantour. Of those who do, about 75% of them head to the fêted, with good ...

Last Updated ( Thursday, 14 August 2008 21:44 )

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Scuba Diving

Scuba Diving

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are blasting out (“Step from the road to the sea to the sky and I do believe what we rely on”) and the Haribo pick and mix sweeties are being passed around the dive boat. Everybody is ...

Last Updated ( Friday, 23 January 2009 13:44 )

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Vines, Forts, Chateaux and Beaches

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 10 February 2009 09:14 )

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Video: Robert V. Camuto

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Corkscrewed by Robert V. Camuto

Adventures in the new French wine country

 

Julia Child: My Life in France

If, like me until recently, you had never knowingly heard of Julia Child, it will help to understand that she was, so to speak, America’s answer to Elizabeth David.  It was she who, after the second world war, introduced the dishes and techniques of French cooking to, principally, her countrywomen.  I had been aware of, but never read, her encyclopaedic work Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but could not have told you who had written it (or even that it was an American book).  In fact, Julia Child later parted company from Elizabeth David: while David went on to explore the cuisines of Italy and other Mediterranean countries, Child stuck to that of France but developed her teaching skills into pioneering television cookery programmes decades before they came to clog up our TV channels on a daily basis.

 

Sarah's Midnight Anthology

A year ago I introduced readers of this website to an old friend, Sarah Nock, who had written an insightful  –  and surprisingly funny  –  account of what it is like to suffer from Parkinson’s disease.  (My review of Ponderings on Parkinson’s is still on-site.)  Now she has published another book of a quite different kind: an anthology of verse, but one with a difference.

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