BOGOTA is where I want to die. Colombia is my new favourite country and Bogota is its capital. This city has it all. Fascinating history, over the top culture, bad traffic and lots of edge. Great food is endless: restaurants creating…
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my favourite things: LYON
It is every blogger’s joy to get enthusiastic feedback and I am no different. Whether this feedback is posted in the Reply section or, as is more often the case, shared in conversation and accompanied by a glass of excellent…
positively perfect pied a terre
I love going to restaurants. I eat out an awful lot. Over the years I have become friends with many restaurateurs. Oddly, I have hesitated to write about them. I wondered if I could be objective. However, I met them…
back to bocuse
1967. Haight Ashbury celebrates the summer of love, the Beatles release Sargent Pepper, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first black judge on the US Supreme Court and Charles De Gaulle proclaims ‘Vive le Quebec Libre’. My family hopped on a boat…
hungry in havana
I was not the least bit surprised how much I adored Havana. It has everything I love. Fascinating history: both modern and ancient. You can scramble around the old fort built to keep out pirates or hang out in Revolutionary…
histories…my latest crush
Some people are star-struck by athletes, actors or musicians. I, however, am wowed by chefs. This is a long-standing predilection that I developed at the age of 5 upon meeting the legendary Paul Bocuse. I may have been too young…