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If you would like to write or express a comment about our website, an article or book review please don't hesitate to email us and we will include it here in this section, with your permission.  We also welcome your queries concerning living in the south of France and will do our best to respond and help.

Becoming a member of AMB Cote d'Azur

My wife and I would enjoy  becoming a member of your association. We live in Provence since 1993 coming from Brussels. Awaiting your info - with kind regards,
André Opdebeck.

Alice Barker replies:

Dear André,

Thank you for your email and kind interest in AMB Cote d'Azur. There is no need to become a member of the association simply because we do not charge a membership fee and the site is totally free to everyone.

Having said that, we are always on the look out for new contributing writers and if you would like to share some of your experiences of living in Provence I'm sure our readers would enjoy reading about them.

I am presently in the throes of updating the current issue of AMB Cote d'Azur. The February issue is due out on Monday 9th February and promises to be a fun issue. The March issue is planned for March 16th - just after the Violet Festival in Tourrettes-sur-Loup.

Again, thank you for your interest in our website. It's good to know that it is appreciated.

Kind regards,
Alice

 

Congratulations

Just to congratulate you on another good-looking and interesting issue. Your website shows what has attracted so many people for so long to the Cote d'Azur. Despite current difficulties, hopefully the charms of the ...

Letter to the Editor: Jazz Radio

Dear AMB Cote d'Azur,
 
I found your site through Google and maybe you can help me find what I'm looking for: I've spent my holidays at La Colle sur Loup in August. We had the music always on in the house...

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Letter to the Editor: How to get added to the site?

Dear Alice,

My name is Paul Manion - and I operate a rental agency in Nice - and would be very interested in adding my site to your site (which is very impressive). Can you please advise how I would go about doing th...

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Letter to the Editor: Review Escape to Provence

Dear Ms. Barker,
    I have long been interested in Lady Winifred Fortescue and her writings. Needless to say, I was very interested in Maureen Emerson's new book, Escape to Provence and must say I was not d...

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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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