Fabulous Food by Fred
Take the gourmand’s good oil of French taste – truffle and inject it between the skin and flesh of chickens and marinade . “la truffe’’ in Kangaroo Island honey. And Voila!. These titillating treats...
View Articlewomen’s artistic works inspire
We women need to learn how to buy things for ourselves rather than always buy gifts for others. I mentioned this thought when I opened the latest exhibition at the Burra Regional Art Gallery which was...
View ArticleMy father Frank
My father, Frank, has reached the grand age of 91, which is the first thing he tells anyone he meets. He immediately follows with the statement “I’m travelling very well for an old bugger.’’ And yes,...
View ArticleBastille Day – Heads could roll!
French president Nicolas Sarkozy can’t seem to take a trick right now. About two out of three – 64 per cent of the French public dislike him and disapprove of his actions as President. Not only did...
View ArticleFrolic around France
Myriad things trigger Francophilia fever in July, not the least being celebrations of France’s national day Bastille Day on July 14. Coverage of the Tour de France provides a nightly nostalgia trip...
View ArticleAboriginal Art becomes English class act
By SERENA WILLIAMS One of the nice things about being a grandparent, I imagine, is watching your children coming to the slow realisation that parenting is a muckup, not a conspiracy!! By which I mean...
View ArticleMoving moments
Moving Moments We are on the move. The time has come after 12 months of the usual harrowing, time-consuming, finicky process of deciding to demolish and build another more functional, safer retirement...
View ArticleBoeuf en Daube a la Provencale from Christine Wilkinson of Lavande French...
BOEUF-en-DAUBE A LA PROVENCALE: (cooked in a cast iron pot on top of stove.) Adapted from a recipe from DK Books publication Provence Cookery School by renowned French chef, Gui Gedda and Marie Pierre...
View ArticleOne July day- A lesson in tolerance
It’s Saturday morning and I have hair appointment this morning at Gauci hair stylists at Mitcham and a speaking engagement for my book From France With Love at 1pm. The beautician at Gauci is a recent...
View ArticleCheryl turns hand to paint
Fine art machine embroiderer and textile artist Cheryl Bridgart has turned her talented hand to painting following a mishap with her ankle which forced her to abandon the sewing machine. Renowned for...
View ArticleEscoffier – King of Chefs – Founder of French Haute Cuisine
French chef Auguste Escoffier was unquestionably one of the greatest chefs the world has known and is hailed by all the best chefs today as “The King of Chefs”. He was the genius who masterminded the...
View ArticleRed buses, red telephone boxes and black taxis
RED double decker buses, red telephone boxes on streets and countless boxy, black taxis lined up at Heathrow Airport. It must be London. The wonders of air travel dawn on me as I take a bright blue...
View ArticleLondon – a real life Monopoly board
Life in London is like living on a Monopoly board, stationed as we are at the Royal Air Force Club on Piccadilly for the next two days. I arrived yesterday and took a taxi from Heathrow to Mayfair...
View ArticleGerard Depardieu – mauvaises manieres
He is probably the most famous face on French films, yet Gerard Depardieu’s recent rude outburst against fellow French actor Juliette Binoche reeks of sour grapes. The star of 50 films, Mme Binoche is...
View ArticleGrandma’s cooking capers
I am on grandma duty in my daughter Serena’s London home, while she celebrates a late birthday high tea with husband, Jon, at Claridges. My three grandkids – two boys aged 8 and 6 and a three year old...
View ArticleCuisine, culture from OZ to Cordon Bleu-Paris
Ooh la la! I will speak at Le Cordon Bleu Paris. The exciting spin-offs from my book From France With Love continues with an extraordinary offer to address students at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris this...
View ArticleA class act @ Le Cordon Bleu Paris
Voila ! Today unfolds as an extraordinary entree to France’s exotic cuisine culture as I watch Le Cordon Bleu chef Philippe Clergue teach advanced students in Paris. I had to earn my place in his...
View ArticleMoving- a mountain of a task
Was it John Lennon who once wrote “life is what happens when you are busy making other plans’’. We have lived this songline for the last few months as our carefully laid plans to uproot our lives,...
View ArticleExpat chef becomes pure Parisienne
Ex-pat Kaye Baudinette is unassuming about her extraordinary life in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu where she is the long-time manager of the Resource Centre at the world-renowned Academie d’art culinaire de...
View Article“Une soiree extraordinaire” @ Limoges
The ghost of the Domaine de la Dame de la Lauriere would have enjoyed this evening’s soiree around the dining room table in the house she once inhabited. That was around 1793 at the time of France’s...
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