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Tag Archives: Toast
A question of toast……
I have recently been reading a novel by William Boyd in which one of the protagonists, a brilliant piano tuner, speaks of a certain sequence of chords and harmonies which, when played by a virtuoso, would, without fail, bring tears … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchovies, bandofbrothers, Capers, fast food, fried bread, good food, michaelkamen, olive oil, Preserved lemons, provencal ceramic plate, Roger Stowell, Toast
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French rabbit….
Happily, our electric toaster no longer toasts. Even when it did toast, it didn’t. There is something unpleasant and inept about toasters. In my mind’s eye I see floppy slices of artificial bread on a hinged platform, not unlike a … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Camembert, Cheese, Cooking, Digital photography, Dreams, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Memory, Photography, photography course, Toast, Toast, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Cheese on toast, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, electric toaster, Electric toasters, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, imagination, Pain grille, Photography course, Piz Buin, Toast, Welsh Rarebit, writing
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Beluga on dry toast saves me a fortune…
The fingerless gloves, so redolent of Dickensian misery, would be just the job today. They would be even more the job if they weren’t fingerless as it’s the tips of my fingers that turn to bloodless corpse white when the … Continue reading
Posted in Caviar, Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, Eggs, Fish eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Humour, Landscapes, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Beluga, Breakfast, Caviar, clear thinking, Cold, Dickens, digital photography, Economise, Egg on toast, electric heating, enigma machine, expense of heating, Fingerless gloves, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, heating, Humour, outdoors, Photography, Saving money, simple logic, Toast, Warren Buffet, winter, writing
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First taste of summer…
For three successive mornings we have woken to sun pouring in through the windows. But winter habits being hard to shake off, ask any monk, on my way back from buying bread, I stopped at Claude’s house to order some … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Breakfast, capers, Digital photography, Excellence, Farming, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Garden, harmony, Health, Les Saints de Glace, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Sunday, Sunday breakfast, Toast, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vendee, Writing
Tagged Anchovies, Breakfast, Capers, clear thinking, colour of the sky, digital photography, firewood, first taste, Food photographer, France, Garlic, Mediterranean food, morning toast, natural beauty, outdoors, palate, Photography, Photography course, Spring, Summer, Summer food, Sunny morning, Toast, writing
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