…on a Chinese day weatherwise, it was cloudy but steaming hot in Paris today and I had to change my shirt three times. First time came this morning after I came back from the street market on Boulevard Richard Lenoir (you know it already, don’t you?). Have a look, it’s a weird selection: Seems, I had… [Read more…]
March 28, 2010
…that’s what my 5-year-old son has done today. He came up with the solution pictured below, combining five of the best French cheeses on one slice of bread, thus creating a culinary Tour de France: What do we have here? From the top: a creamy Valençay made of raw goat milk, then a piece of… [Read more…]
March 2, 2010
…when it comes to great local food of all kinds. It would take some time to draw a map of products and producers here. Back home in Paris I have a book of 250 or so pages only describing the traditional delicacies of this mountainous strip of land. Here in the Alps, you can find… [Read more…]
March 1, 2010
…made my dinner tonight. We had a Fondue Savoyarde at 1800 meters above sea level and surrounded by snowy mountain peaks – you can’t get tweedier than this. The famous Fondue, a Swiss invention, is French food for people who work 12 hours a day lifting iron bars or half cows (skiing is just a modern… [Read more…]
February 28, 2010
…doesn’t really make sense, don’t you think? It’s the when-in-Rome-thing. Why would you want to eat, say, oysters on a snowy mountain summit? While you have a perfect local cheese at hand? Or a chunk of smoked bacon from a century-old supplier close by? Or some crude ham dried in the fresh air 1500 meters… [Read more…]
February 27, 2010
…even if you haven’t heard about it yet. I’ve arrived here tonight, in lovely Les Saisies, a village very close to the Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest mountain, and I will spend a week here skiing – and eating, of course. This is the land of Beaufort and Reblochon, just to mention two fabulous cheeses, there’s… [Read more…]
July 9, 2010
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