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Category Archives: Wine
taking the piss….
Manneken Pis, Pissenlit, Pisse-Dru, Tant Pis, Pissaladiere…there’s something very French about pissing; about not searching for a convenient bush or shady corner but just having a piss when the moment takes you. I should make it clear that this is singularly, … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, anchovies, Baking, Bay leaves, capers, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, olives, onions, photography course, Photography holiday, Pissaladiere, summer, tart, Thyme, Uncategorized, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, palate, Photography course, simple logic, social networking, Summer, writing
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Food, France and Photography …in early September
Early September in France….crowds gone…time for a peaceful holiday…one that involves spending time in a lovely corner of France where you’ll not only eat excellent food and drink good wine whilst learning a bit about food photography….or about taking any sort … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Markets, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, swimming pool, Vendee, Wine
Tagged cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photography, Food photography courses, France, French Restaurants, Holidays in France, La Rochelle, mastering the art of french cooking, nature, Niort, outdoors, Photography course, Photography holidays, red wine, restaurants, Summer, Vendee, Venise Verte
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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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Hobson’s egg….
Given the choice, we humans will invariably choose to have a choice. The more extensive the list of choices may be, the more highly we regard that which is on offer. Not withstanding, that in this time of ours, knowledge has … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Bad Habits, Bad luck, Digital photography, Dreams, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Good luck, Google, Humour, Illusion, Luck, Reality, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged allegory, Choice, clear thinking, digital photography, Henry Ford, Hobson's Choice, Humour, knowledge, lack of knowledge, Morton's Fork, Photography, pratfall, simple logic, social networking, writing, you can't always get what you want
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…it’s a photography holiday..but not as we know it, Jim…
Camerahols are dead, long live Vendée Holidays. Just when I thought the time had come for me to perfect the art of selfishly lazing around a pool, a vibrant young couple, Matt and Emily Clark, have recruited me to work … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Landscapes, lifestyle, Markets, photography course, Photography holiday, Wine
Tagged digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Photography, social networking, Summer, Vendee
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…hints of jam,..cinnamon…and a sprinkling of ….sugar.
The disappointingly dull explanation, when recounted to me in my childhood, of how a ship got into a bottle failed then, as now, to raise more than a bored ooh, or a stifled aah. Why one should choose to put, by necessity, … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Bad Habits, Burger, Digital photography, Drinks, Excess, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Health, Humour, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Calories, clear thinking, digital photography, Food photographer, France, Health reports, Humour, Obesity, red wine, simple logic, social networking, writing
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the best legs in Lyon….
The streets of Vieux Lyon take on even more charm when seen through the legs of an unusually good Côte Rôtie. Its goodness is guaranteed as it has been selected and poured by Georges dos Santos, a man who is regarded … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Art photography, Digital photography, Drinks, Excellence, Excess, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, grapes, Humour, lifestyle, Photographic Prints, Photography, Uncategorized, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Antic Wine, caviste, clear thinking, Cote Rotie, digital photography, Food photographer, France, Georges dos Santos, Grands Crus, Humour, Lyon, Photography course, red wine, simple logic, social networking, Vieux Lyon, writing
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Beefheart
The long awaited day has at last arrived. The tomatoes that I purchased this morning taste of tomato rather than water. It is a moment that I relish each summer and my celebration today will be for the coeur de boeuf … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Baking, capers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Herbs and Spices, Humour, Mediterranean food, Parmesan, Photography, Recipes, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, Writing
Tagged American revolution, baking, Bastille, clear thinking, coeur de boeuf, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, French revolution, Humour, Marianne, Photography, recipe, red wine, Rudi Geinrich, Summer, writing
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Ma pomme….
Memories of my first visits to France, when I was very young, are full of the warmth of the sun, the scent of melons and peaches, the blue of the sea and a litany of tastes the like of which … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, apples, Baking, Bistro, Childhood memories, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Elizabeth David, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Fruit, Garden, Humour, Illusion, Memory, Patricia Wells, Photography, Reality, Recipes, summer, tart, Tarte Francoise Potel, Uncategorized, Vineyard, Wine, Writing
Tagged baking, Bistro Cooking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, Domaine de la Pousse d'Or, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, landscapes, natural beauty, nature, patricia wells, recipe, red wine, restaurants, Summer, sweet pastry, writing
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a very well turned leg…
Among the many things with which I am familiar but, on closer examination, about which I know next to nothing, is the Bible. I undoubtedly absorbed more from Cecil.B,DeMille’s version of Biblical events than I did from the hours of … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, beans, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, gigot, Humour, Meat, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Stephane Reynaud, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, Writing
Tagged Cecil.B.deMille, Chocolate, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, dogma, Easter, Easter Bunny, food, Food photographer, France, Gigot, Humour, Jesuits, loaves and fishes, Photography, recipe, Ripailles, simple logic, Stephane Reynaud, The Bible, writing
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