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The best shop in the world
This week, I visit Marseille and my favourite shop in the world, and share a recipe for pompe à l’huile, the brioche of Provence.
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Biscuits for Candlemas
I’m in Marseille this week, and I'm sharing a recipe for their famous biscuits, navettes de Marseille.
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Doing ordinary things
This weekend, I receive a tutorial in leather cleaning, visit a hardware store, and make a huge pot of moules à la crème.
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January 2025

Another fine mess
This week, keeping the streets clean and a recipe for apples baked with boudin noir.
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Embracing the right to disconnect
In France, we live a much calmer life than we lived in London. It’s the law. Plus a delicious if ugly recipe for pork.
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Hot soup for driech days
This week, we visit the truffle festival in Sète and I make a spinach and chickpea soup that’s full of health
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Off to the shops
Today, come grocery shopping with me, plus a beef casserole with winter vegetables recipe that’s a hymn to brown food.
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Hello, how are you?
Today I share my domestic New Year resolutions – perhaps in 2025 the courtyard will stop looking like a builder’s yard? – along with the first market…
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December 2024

Almost there
‘Twas the week before Christmas and a new nativity scene appears to cause controversy in the village. Plus a recipe for rabbit with prunes and chestnuts…
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Our first French Christmas
Four years ago, an out-of-date pet passport meant we spent an unexpected Christmas in France. This week, how we combine our English festive traditions…
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Language lessons
This week, the challenge of learning French, a beautiful salad of persimmons, halloumi and walnuts, plus what to do with a tiny truffle.
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Joseph Voisin’s happy house
This week, a ghost story and a recipe for cauliflower crumble.
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