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reflecting on a Sunday lunch in La Rochelle…..
The skies are blue with soft white clouds and the sun is shining. It’s business as usual in La Rochelle. Ancient stone walls reflect the warm sun into the darkest corners of the streets. Pavements are cluttered with the tables and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Bistro, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, lifestyle, Photography, Photography holiday, seafood, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, restaurants, simple logic, social networking, travel, Vendee, writing
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not faking it ….
There is a trinity of enhanced pleasure givers without which I would consider my store cupboard to be bare. These three are the saucy undies of the kitchen. The Ann Summers peek-a-boo, knickerless crotches that will serve to stiffen the flaccid … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, 70's, anchovies, Art photography, capers, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, harmony, Humour, lemons, Parmesan, Photography, photography course, scallops, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged Ann Summers, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Gestalt, Humour, palate, Photography, Photography course, social networking, Synergy, writing
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Food Photography Course – September in the Vendée
From the 12-16 September 2016, I’ll be hosting a food photography course, run by Vendée Holidays.UK, at a beautiful old house deep in the heart of the Marais in the Sud Vendée of West France. The area is a treasure … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, BBQ, beef, Chicken, Chicken, clay oven, Cookery School in France, Cooking, cote de boeuf, Digital photography, Fish, fish cookery, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Meat, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, pizza oven, seafood, skate wings, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, social networking, Summer, vacation, Vendee, writing
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Hold the lamprey…
The concept of dying from a surfeit of lampreys intrigues me in that a single mouthful of lamprey could well constitute a surfeit in the mind of one unfamiliar with lamprey. Now that you are familiar, I think that you will agree … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, fish cookery, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Kitchens, lamprey, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, seafood, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged avoirdupoids, clear thinking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Henry I of England, Humour, lamprey, perch pike or rod, Photography, Photography course, social networking, surfeit of lampreys, writing
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the damp patch…
Days of wind and rain make the passing of those glorious summer days of wine and roses all the harder to bear. Each year my expectations of a gentle transition from sunshine to mellow fruitfulness, born of some atavistic memory, … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Autumn, clams, coques, crab, Crayfish, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Excess, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, langoustines, Mussels, oysters, Photographic Prints, Photography, prawns, scallops, sea urchins, seafood, Sex, Uncategorized, vongole, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, knee trembler, palate, Photography, Plateau de fruits de mer, sea food, sexy food, simple logic, social networking, woody Allen, writing
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That’s total scallops!..
It is hard to imagine that the man in this picture, well known forhis even temperament, could be so tormented by an intransigent still life, otherwise known as dinner, and the vagaries of a camera self timer: and yet, it … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Baking, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Drinks, Fish, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Photographic Prints, Photography, scallops, seafood, Terence and Vicki Conran, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, wine, Writing
Tagged baking, Classic Conran, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, noix de St.Jaques, Photography, Profanity, red wine, scallops, surf n'turf, tsunami, writing
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la veritable pissaladiere and other lies….
That which some believe to be an unimpeachable truth will always be questioned or pilloried by others who believe that their own version of that unimpeachable truth is clearly so much truer than the other unimpeachable claptrap. At this time our society is … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, anchovies, Baking, capers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, olives, pasta, Photography, puff pastry, seafood, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, great big onion, Humour, Nice, Photography, Pissala, Pissaladiere, Poutines, recipe, vale of tears, writing
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the importance of being honest…
Cookery writers busy themselves creating and revising the culinary zeitgeist at a faster rate than I can digest. My years of going through the annual charade of nodding in agreement, whilst trying not to nod off, as one was briefed on photography for the Christmas … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Baking, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Illusion, Mussels, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, seafood, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Captain Cook, Carry on Cooking, Christmas with a twist, clear thinking, cookery books, cookery writers, cooking, digital photography, Flashman, Food photographer, Grenoble, Humour, Mussels, Photography, Photography course, Rugby School, Samarkand, Tom Brown, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Walnuts, writing
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On not eating the Dalai Lama….
Over the past few days it has been a rare moment when there has not been a bottle in front of me which state of affairs is, according the joke in many a Christmas cracker, infinitely preferable to a frontal lobotomy. I … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Ile d'Oleron, oysters, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Prints, seafood, Uncategorized, wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, Crackers, Dalai Lama, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Lobotomy, natural beauty, nature, oysters, palate, Photography, Photography course, Walrus and the Carpenter, writing, Yuletide
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I say kinell, you say quenelle[kə.nɛl])…
The skull and cross bones would be an ideal pennant for the carnivorous pike. Several feet of scaly flesh surmounted by a fierce head made monstrous by a mouthful of stilettos gives ample credence to this fanciful title. It will come as … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Cooking, Crayfish, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Excellence, Fish, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, pike, seafood, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Charcuterie Sibilia, Colette Sibilia, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Les Bouchons de Lyon, Les meres de Lyon, Lyon, mastering the art of french cooking, Photography course, Pike, Quenelles, Quenelles de Brochet, recipe, restaurants, sauce nantua, Sibilia, stilettos, tamis, writing
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Food, Photography & France 