VIBRANT MONDAY MARKET IN GIONO’S PROVENCE: THE FORCALQUIER MARKET
Sixty kilometers (38 miles) from Lourmarin, in the French department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, lies [...]
The Modern Trobadors
FALL ALWAYS EVOKES THE START OF SOMETHING NEW: FROM TEXT BOOKS TO TOUR BOOKS
Family and friends be forewarned: I am planning a big rendezvous in Provence Fall, for me, always marks the [...]
LOURMARIN’S JACQUELINE BRICARD TO HOST “LE BINÔME,” AN ENCHANTING EXHIBIT OF NAΪF ART THAT COMBINES PAINTING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY
If you have not yet received your invitation to the wedding of the year—Brad and Angelina, of course, who [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PÉTANQUE GOES WELL WITH PASTIS
We played pétanque, drank pastis, and spoke a little French last weekend. The only sign that we were in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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