Articles by Susan Manfull

September 2, 2012 10

ENCHANTING EVENING IN PROVENCE: WINE TASTING AT CAVE AURETO AND DINNER AT “LE JARDIN DANS LES VIGNES” IN LA COQUILLADE (AT AN ENCHANTING PRICE, TOO!)

We began at Cave Aureto where we met our friend Pierre Schott, the retail cavistes of the winery’s cellar. After a very interesting tour of their uncommonly modern winery and a tasting flight of their award-winning wines, we made our way to the [...]

August 27, 2012 10

ISLE-SUR-LA-SORGUE MARKET IS MY FAVORITE PLACE TO BUY ESPADRILLES

I know, I know: it’s the antiques that draw people from all over the world to the Isle-sur-la-Sorgue [...]

August 12, 2012 15

NO NEED TO GO TO PARIS ANY MORE—I’VE LEARNED TO MAKE MACARONS!

MacaRONS versus MacaROONS First, let’s establish that I am referring the famous Parisian macaron that, in [...]

August 6, 2012 23

11 SHADES OF ROSÉ….MUCH BETTER THAN 50 SHADES OF GREY

We opened ten bottles of rosé within 24 hours last week. Good friends David and Mark were visiting their old stomping grounds here in Portsmouth. Since we had enjoyed so many rosés while we were together in Provence in 2008, we made those pink [...]

July 29, 2012 8

PÉTANQUE GOES WELL WITH PASTIS

We played pétanque, drank pastis, and spoke a little French last weekend. The only sign that we were in [...]

July 23, 2012 5

LAVENDER FIELDS FOREVER? NOT IF THE CICADELLE HAS ITS WAY

At the height of lavender season in Provence—the largest lavender- producing region in the world—the [...]

July 15, 2012 30

ROSÉ, WHITE, AND BLUE ON BASTILLE DAY

Yesterday was Bastille Day. I know I should have been thinking red, white and blue—thick swaths of each color—as I arranged our small French Tricolors around the dinner table, listened to French CDs, chopped fennel, onion and parsley for our soupe de poisons aux [...]

July 1, 2012 11