Bonjour,
I hope that you just and yours are effectively.
First – I’m massively excited to share a bit of stories with you. I’m occurring a visit to Paris – who desires to return with me?! I’ll be internet hosting two week-long, small group, unique excursions subsequent yr (one in spring and one within the fall): The Good Paris Tour. I’ll be sharing the perfect of town of sunshine from artwork, tradition, historical past, structure, vogue and music to meals and wine – and I promise you there’s nothing abnormal about this tour – it actually is ideal! When you’d like to affix me, yow will discover out extra right here:
The Good Paris Tour Spring
The Good Paris Tour Fall
And now for an replace on the Center-of-Nowhere Boulympiques! I’ve been telling you about how my little village held its personal Olympic Video games – specifically three, weekly rounds of boules (AKA pétanque) on the village inexperienced. But it surely turned clear right away that the actual contest was concerning the home-made tarts, pies and or gateaux that everybody purchased to share. On the final day, after the boules match successful group was introduced – which nobody took in any respect severely – it was time to guage the truffles.
It was a tie between Constance’s strawberry tart (week 1), Madame Bernadette’s Saint Honoré cake (week 2) and Blandine’s Paris-Brest (week 3). Somebody needed to be the choose. As self-appointed umpire of the boules matches, Jean-Claude stepped as much as tackle the heroic job. “Everybody’s truffles had been magnificent” he mentioned, “even Janine’s apple tart” which received me a cheer and a spherical of applause. It is going to come as no shock to you who’ve been associates right here for some time that I didn’t win on account of me being recognized for fairly some time as “flop chef not prime chef” by my French associates – for good motive. BF (Earlier than France) I couldn’t prepare dinner. Frankly I’ve improved with perseverance (my associates’ perseverance in instructing me that’s), however I’ve an extended approach to go to meet up with a few of my neighbours (okay all of them).
“I believe it might be fairest if we had been to decide on by a present of palms, so, first – Constance’s Strawberry tart….” A slew of palms shot up, Jean Claude counted and wrote the quantity down. Wanting round I may see each certainly one of us had an arm within the air.
When Jean-Claude learn out the subsequent two contenders, the identical factor occurred once more – everybody voted for them!
“Ahem” Jean-Claude pushed again his cap, and cleared his throat, trying very severe as he eyed a bit of paper with the numbers he’d counted, judging truffles is a severe enterprise. “I declare the gold medal goes to…” he appeared round at us, grinning extensively “all of them!” Effectively, that received a standing ovation, even previous Monsieur Lafont received to his toes and yelled “youppie” – French for yippee!
Wishing you a bon weekend wherever you’re from a village of winners the place we might have the Olympics yearly to any extent further!
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Bisous
Janine
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Janine Marsh is Creator of My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream, My 4 Seasons in France: A 12 months of the Good Life and Toujours la France: Dwelling the Dream in Rural France all out there as e-book, print & audio, on Amazon all over the place & all good bookshops on-line. Her new guide Methods to be French – a celebration of the French way of life and artwork de vivre, is out now – a have a look at the French lifestyle.
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