Month: April 2026
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The French Brocante Guessing Game Reveal
The bread stamp I discovered yesterday came from the Alps… Kathie got it right. Before homes had its own oven, bread in rural France was baked in a shared communal oven—the four communal,- the four banal. Families would prepare their dough at home,…
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Brocante Guessing Game
Do you know what this little thing is? I am not often stomped. But, today I was. I had no idea, but I overheard a woman explaining what it was to another person- well I’ll be darn. I had to…
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You Know the Saying That Goes Something Like- All Looks Calm From the Outside?
From Calm Yeah, that is Yann trimming the ivy while standing on the windowsill from the second floor. And, the neighbor decided to take out the refrigerator from the second floor- using a rope that only was tied around the…
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Spring in a Plate
Food memories the kind that instantly brings you back to a place, a table, a moment. Years ago, traveling with the children, we stayed in a hotel where they served a pasta with a sauce that wasn’t cooked. Just fresh…
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Faces that Followed me Home From the Brocante
When I go to the brocantes, many things catch my eye—but it’s always the portraits, especially the older ones. The crackled faces, slightly torn, never quite perfect… the ones that have been hanging out in dark attics. If you came…
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Gorgeous, Glorious Easter
After months of rain and grey skies in Provence—during which my down coat and wool scarf seemed to be glued to my body— Easter finally broke the spell. The sun came out, and suddenly it was summer. Gabriel with his…