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by Ruth February 16, 2015

I am pretty excited to reveal what I’ve been working on the last two months but there are just one or two details to finalise… I’ve been clocking 15 hour days (and weekends – sorry kids) to create our new website so I haven’t been as present as I would like here. Mea culpa! […]

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Snowy Lacoste, snowed-in in Provence

by Ruth February 5, 2015

So it snowed overnight….30cm of snow. Of course we were totally unprepared, the car was parked behind the house as far away as possible from the main road, the fridge is empty (thankfully we have a larder full of pasta and canned tomatoes!). I captured this moment when my two little ones woke up to […]

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Inside the atelier, a 13th Century cave transformed

by Ruth January 14, 2015

This past weekend we were invited to lunch in my friend Joannas house, I double, triple checked – “are you sure you don’t prefer that we leave the kids at home with a babysitter?”, surtout pas – Joanna insisted the more the merrier. I hadn’t seen Joanna since this past summer when she showed me […]

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Bonne Annee 2015 – wishing you everything

by Ruth January 8, 2015

I just wanted to reach out and wish you all a happy happy new year. I hope it is filled with … ….happiness, may you be surrounded by loving friends and family …laughter – the kind where you have tears running down your face and your cheeks ache from smiling! …adventures – go skinny dipping […]

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How to care for your truffle treasures, washing, prepping & storing

by Ruth January 4, 2015

So on Friday my husband and our family found our very first truffles and learned so much about the world of wild truffle hunts, armed with just a toothbrush, a stick and a smile. One thing we have become very good at over the years is learning how to prepare and use truffles …read we […]

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How to find truffles in Provence, an insiders guide

by Ruth January 3, 2015

Raphael (French Husband) caught the truffling bug four years back, when over an incredible truffle laden winter feast, a friend of ours Gabriel Sobin, hinted at the hidden art of truffling ‘a la Mouche’. This most gifted truffler has no need for dogs or pigs, they have an exceptional nose, infinite patience, venture out only […]

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Teasing you with a truffle hunting adventure

by Ruth January 2, 2015

This morning we embarked on a truffle hunting adventure. The conditions were a tiny bit imperfect, in our favour there was no wind or rain and the sun was shining, not in our favour was the frozen ground which was covered in a thin layer of frost…. not too enticing for truffle flies to lay […]

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Happy New Year – my mothers New Years Eve Lacoste winter wedding

by Ruth January 1, 2015

I’ve been light on posting over the holidays, too much feasting and too little internet access, and thrown into the mix was helping pull together the wedding day of my mum on New Years Eve. After a few days of strong biting cold Mistral wind and rain – the sun came out and made for […]

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Christmas decorating in the South of France

by Ruth December 23, 2014

Here is part deux of Christmas in my small corner of Provence. We live in a tiny hilltop village in the Luberon, not so far from the cosmopolitan big towns of Aix en Provence and Avignon but tucked far enough away amidst fields of cherry trees and olive groves that we feel quite removed from […]

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Christmas in Lacoste, Provence

by Ruth December 22, 2014

So Christmas holidays are here, school (and childcare) is out till 5th January. No more work for Maman and two energetic kids to entertain (plus the odd friend thrown in for good measure). I have no option but to put ‘business’ on pause and get the walking boots on and get out and explore the […]

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