La Madeleine, with 2 star Michelin chef, Patrick Gauthier, was the special highlight dinner during my 2007 stay at La Varenne residential cooking school in Burgundy. Coming back to Sens this time on the barge was a wonderful opportunity for us to book La Madeleine and for me to meet up with Chef [...]
Shannon Bennett has recently opened his new, fabulous venture, The Piggerie, at Burnham Beeches in Sherbrook. He has grand plans which are in place and will be accomplished over the next few years. He has already planted a trufferie of 60 oak trees, ready in a few years' time, to supply his restaurants, plus a [...]
One of the world’s most expensive foods is the truffle. Truffle hunting – called le cavage - was always one part of our week’s program at la Combe en Périgord. Nearby to our village of Les Eyzies, is a tiny village called Pechalifour, where Edouard Aynaud, the trufficulteur, lives on his truffle farm, Truffe en [...]
I love travelling in France; I love the food, wine, people, countryside, history and language, everything about it really. However, our last trip in June…was a test of my devotion. I constantly said to myself – I love France, I love being here! And I really do and did think that. But do not envy [...]
