Here’s another excuse to eat and drink: Collioure, a small seaside town just this side of France’s border with Spain, a center for making a local fortified wine known as Banyuls as well as for artists and packing anchovies. I may have found my perfect meal here: fresh anchovies, fried calamari, Catalonian dried ham, tomato […]
We spent a Sunday wandering around Perpignan, capitol of the so-called Pyrenees-Orientale with roots dating to pre-Roman times. But like most places in this part of France, commerce comes to a screeching halt on Sunday, as it does during the noon hour. At one point, having found that our credit card did not work at […]
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More than anything, this post is an excuse to publish photos of the gorgeous dessert–or rather cheese course–put together by two artist friends of our friend Bob when we visited them for dinner in their home in a tiny village high in the Pyrenees. Ilianne and Gerald settled there originally years ago to start a […]
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