If you’ve ever travelled in the Basque Country in Southwest France (you can read about one of our early trips to the Basque country and the Fêtes de Bayonne here) or northern Spain, you might have noticed a lot of red and green in everything from street signs to table linen. These are the Basque […]
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Taste of Toulouse Pastry and Chocolate Tour
Ever found yourself somewhere new with a list a mile long of places to eat/ foods to try? Well when you’re travelling solo, it’s nearly impossible to get through that list (and believe me, I have travelled on my own enough to know!) – because, really, there is only so much you can eat in […]
French Fridays: Sablés Bretons
For French Fridays today, I’m bringing you a favourite cookie recipe that, admittedly, I tend to purchase when I’m in France (because really good ones are so readily available!) but over the past year or so, I’ve been playing around with a homemade version that I’m finally happy to share (and – uh oh – […]
Champagne taste but not a champagne budget? An exploration of France’s crémant wines
Source: Claude PIARD [CC BY-SA 4.0], de Wikimedia Commons This is a guest post written by Neil Phillips and participates in Saturday’s #winophiles Twitter chat (see below for details!) The end of year approaches, which for many bring on the season of celebration and parties – and a time to say thanks to friends and family. […]
Peter Mayle’s My Twenty Five Years in Provence
This is part of my Summer Reads 2018 series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. This week’s Summer Read is for Francophiles who dream of up and moving to France à la Peter Mayle. This is Mayle’s final work, published after his death in January 2018 is the and is pretty […]
Apron Strings
This is part of my Summer Reads 2018 series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. Not able to take a trip this summer? I’ve got just the book for you! Jan Wong’s Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China is a perfect book for armchair travellers who […]
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