MARTIGUES—THE VENICE OF PROVENCE—IS A PICTURESQUE STOP FOR LUNCH & A STROLL
Martigues was a magnet for painters in the 19th- and early 20th-century. Painters from the schools of French [...]
Articles by Susan Manfull
ROUSSILLON: BRING YOUR CAMERA, PAINTBRUSHES, AND BASKET FOR THE MARKET
Roussillon is designated as one of “Les Plus Beaux Villages de France,” and with good reason. Its [...]
SACHA LICHINE TALKS ABOUT MAKING ROSÉ IN PROVENCE AND WE TASTE HIS WINES…including the just released 2013 Whispering Angel
Sacha Lichine, the man behind the wine at Château d’Esclans, was in his old stomping grounds this week. In Boston for the city’s Wine Expo, I caught up with him at the Seaport Hotel where he was hosting a seminar on—guess what—the four tiers of luscious rosé [...]
AUPS TRUFFLE FESTIVAL: MEET THE BEST TRUFFLE DOG AND THE CUTEST TRUFFLE PIG
I am immensely grateful to Pamela J. O’Neill for her reporting and photographs of this event. Aups, the [...]
CORSICAN WINE: INFLUENCED BY PROVENCE AND ITALY, BUT DISTINCTLY ITS OWN
Corsica is a gorgeous French island just 100 miles (170 km) off the southeast coast of Provence and a short flight (45 minutes) from Marseille. Its main draw has long been its striking beaches--some 200 of them totaling over 600 miles of the island's coastline--but did [...]
TEN GENDARMES IN THE MARKET OF A TINY VILLAGE IN PROVENCE IN JANUARY? MAIS OUI, IT’S TRUFFLE SEASON!
Every Thursday morning from mid-November through February, truffle vendors file into Aups for the region’s [...]
NORTH AFRICAN COUSCOUS, PROVENCE ROSÉ, AND RHONE RED: A COSMOPOLITAN COMBINATION THAT WARMS BOTH BODY AND SOUL
Provence is a melting pot of immigrants and nowhere is this more apparent than in Marseille where residents [...]
THE KERFUFFLE ABOUT SAYING ‘BON APPÉTIT’
At some point, midway through the procession of holiday dinners at our home this year, the subject of ‘bon [...]
A CUP OF TEA FROM PALAIS DES THÉS
Part three of a three-part series about what you may find in Provence after the “big supper” (otherwise [...]
CROQUETTES, CROQUETS, OR CROQUANTS: A PROVENÇAL SPECIALTY BY ANY NAME
My advice is to find some Muscat de Beaumes de Venise and forget the confusion of what to call them! [...]
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