Whether you are celebrating today religiously or secularly, Easter is just as important to the French as it is to Americans; large family gatherings, a beautiful meal and egg hunts for all my friends! And chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate!!
Read MoreOn a rainy day in February, with sights set on Shire Farms (an easy 45-minute drive in my 2007 Honda Pilot) I embarked on the last stop of my “buy local, eat local” journey. As the scenery turned from shopping centers to small farms, I thought about the preceding weeks – well, months and years, I suppose – that had brought me so eagerly to the Tate family’s farm.
Read More"I propose you ... how you Americans call it - Bar-B-Que at my house next Saturday, oui?" So, on a sunny evening in June, at 7:30 pm, my husband and 2 culinary school friends of mine arrived at a quaint, two-story house just outside of St. Etienne, about a 45-minute drive outside of Lyon. Happy and excited, but not quite prepared for the culinary adventure that lay before us ...
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