This weekend I sell my products together with two English friends at the „Market on the Farm“, just outside Basel, my hometown. The farm is beautifully set in the countryside, with horses and red Angus grazing. The surrounding forest show off their leaves’ colour from yellow, orange and blazing red. The morning starts with a clouded sky and cold …
Thank you Yesterday, I enjoyed a lovely evening and a lovely bottle of white wine with a girlfriend. She told me that after meditating in the morning she had the urge to say thank you to several persons, thank you for just being in her life, thank you for being there when she needed them and thank you for …
It is early morning, I am sitting outside on a wooden bench at a wooden table in the campagna opposite a lovely town called Massa Marittima – a peaceful and serene setting in Southern Tuscany. Massa Marittima in Toscana A world away from easy online services, a first time of putting up a blog post via my iPhone. Today …
Dare To C.A.R.E. – A Challenge by Al Smith I was really touched (and prompted into taking action) when I read Al’s latest post. Go there and read it, please, before continuing here! DARE TO CARE CHALLENGE THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF OCTOBER Is Al Smith not a powerful and convincing man? Would you not do everything for him? He sure …
Why go far? Come local! There is a lovely weekly market on Saturdays in my hometown in Kleinbasel: Matthäusmarkt, more than 20 producers sell their vegetable, fruit, homemade bread, cheese and other dairy products, olive oil, wine, herbs and jams. When you are hungry or thirsty you can select delicious food from all over the world. Four times a …
Why go far? When you are on a holiday in Italy or France, what are you most likely to do? Do you go to museums, take a tour, sit in a roadside café, go to the beach? I like to go to the local markets, that is the place to meet and talk to the locals and get a …
What and how did all my fellow award winners feel when they received the Versatile Blogger Award? Adrenaline rush? Excited and honoured? WHY ME? I am but a budding blogger, even writing in a foreign language, slowly trying to find my niche or place, like a pulpo (or squid) tentatively spreading out my tentacles. I am not very good …
The third visit took us to Hagenthal last Sunday. Saveurs et traditions des Pyrénées: cheese, bacon and salame. Interesting and very funny guy. He was the one who mentioned to my friend Lily: „Ah, votre amie, c’est un numéro!“ „What? I am not a number, I am human!“ He knows all about cheese and salame Les saucissions et le bacon …
Degustha and Agrogast – a culinary trip There is not only one food and wine exhibition, Degustha,but there is also Agrogast, le festival du terroir,in Hagenthal, Alsace, taking place at the same weekend. Both exhibitions present the best French products, un tour de France de la gastronomie: red and white wine, champagne, armagnac, cognac and brandy from Burgundy, Alsace, Roussillon, …
A French Affair Away this weekend at Degustha, le salon vins et gastronomie, now in its 24th year in nearby Barthenheim, Alsace, scouting new delicacies, vanilla pods, chocolate, honey, homemade woodoven baked bread, cheese, foie gras … I remember the early years when the exhibition took place in Hagenthal, a rather rural event in the countryside with only a few …