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 [...]
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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! [...]
CALISSONS, CROQUETTES, BEAUMES DE VENISE, AND TEA FROM PALAIS DES THÉS: THESE ARE A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS IN PROVENCE AT CHRISTMAS
“Calissons” is the first of a three-part series that focuses on what you may find in Provence after [...]
TWO BOTTLES OF ROSÉ FROM PROVENCE’S CHÂTEAU PIGOUDET: ONE FOR THANKSGIVING AND THE OTHER FOR LEFTOVERS (MY FAVORITE MEAL!)
From The Modern Trobadors Rosé can be the perfect match for your turkey and its varied trimmings, especially [...]
NO ENCORE FOR FRANCE’S PLEYEL PIANO
I read with some sadness that Ateliers Pleyel—the last remaining piano maker in France and one of the [...]
PROVENCE CHRISTMAS MARKETS: LOURMARIN’S MARCHÉ DE NOËL IS DELIGHTFUL
Although lavender, poppies, and leisurely lunches with rosé at poolside tables are the typical draw to [...]
FAIRE LA BISE
“Ah, the stress of meeting a French person,” an American friend once said to me. Remembering fondly her [...]
PATRICIA WELLS IN MY KITCHEN
Okay, Patricia Wells is not really in my kitchen. But her new book, The French Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and [...]
TASTING WINE AT THE NEW YORK CITY WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL: “CHÂTEAU D’ESCLANS — THE ROSÉ LIFESTYLE OF SAINT-TROPEZ”
What could be more fun than sitting in front of six glasses of pale rosé from Provence’s Château d’Esclans? Well, tasting each one with guidance from wine educator Paul Chevalier. That is what my daughter and I were doing last Sunday in New York at the City’s Wine and Food Festival [...]
UPDATE: ANSWERS FROM MARC PERRIN ABOUT “THE CURIOUS CASE OF MIRAVAL’S GRAPES”
This morning I received an email from Marc Perrin, from Famille Perrin (the well-known multi-generational wine family from Châteauneuf-de-Pape that is now in partnership with Château Miraval). As readers of Sunday’s TMT post (10/13/13) about Miraval’s grapes are aware, I had written to him but had not received a response prior to posting “The Curious Case of Miraval’s [...]
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