Hints and tips:
...Among the starters, the bottarga flan tastes like chawanmushi with a sweet-salty “maple syrup of the sea” fish-sauce-mirin-bottarga topping....
...“It’s very stable, melts nicely, has a nicely sweet and salty flavour, a creamy texture and can be bought all round the world,” Danish cook Trine Hahnemann says of the organic line....
...Shopping here took me back to browsing the markets of rural Brittany as a child....
...We are on day one of the Rallye des Princesses, an all-female, five-day classic car rally that this year is being run along the Côte d’Opale, from Paris to La Baule through Normandy and Brittany....
...It was the brainchild of Mark and Lindy O’Hare, who own Thorington Estate, and was built during lockdown from sweet chestnut wood coppiced and milled on the estate....
...For centuries, Brittany had been a poor region, far from Paris; unindustrialised and dirt-floor rural....
...The shop is a riot of produce: sheep’s cheeses from the Pyrenees, home-made gazpacho from the Ardèche, honey from Indre, oysters from Brittany, craft beers and natural wines....
...With the help of stylist Dustin Byrd, Brittany wore a Leanne Marshall Nolina top and Claire La Faye trousers paired with Chloé shoes....
...We have brought our ice-cream makers on holiday to make figleaf ice, from leaves stolen from a neighbour’s garden in Brittany, and apricot-noyau ice, from Italian apricot kernels....
...seasonal products, such as Brittany lobster or Scottish smoked salmon; while LVMH-endorsed, London-New York outfit Rhubarb is currently working on a morsel of pine-infused pigeon, evocatively served on...
...— It would be criminal to write about Brittany and not mention galettes. There are two types: the galette de froment, always sweet, and the galette de blé noir, savoury....
...The badgers that have avoided being culled always leave their mud in certain places where they scramble over the dry-stone walls; and cowslips, harebells, eggs-and-bacon and the sweet-smelling lady’s bedstraw...
...Brittany Weissman, analyst at Edward Jones, notes that people are spending less time in food shops, with their large displays of chocolate and sweets....
...The same is true of the desserts (£14 each), which are too bland and sweet. The wine list is exceptional, both by the bottle and by the glass, and fairly priced....
...Whether you prefer sweet or savoury, pastries this perfect in an atmosphere this inviting are rare anywhere in the world, making Patisserie 46 the perfect spot to impress a client or meet a contact....
...Initially, we thought our top butter was Jean-Yves Bordier’s from St Malo in Brittany, sold by La Fromagerie in London and proudly labelled as “churned in wood and formed with wooden paddles”....
...Jean-François Pioc grew up on a farm in Brittany and came to London nine years ago. He met Ellison — then a trainee chef — at Westminster Kingsway College, where he was a kitchen porter....
...Dumas only picks at his sweet before apologising to Elisabeth for his lack of appetite....
...Gauguin showed the process of hay being harvested in Brittany....
...The hotly tipped band from Athens, Georgia (Adele and Jack White are fans) have all the right credentials: a frontwoman, Brittany Howard, who delivers lines like “Come with me, sweet darling” in the slurred...
...Nana was a tiny, tough woman from Brittany with sparse hair and a rasping voice. Her son, the somewhat beleaguered Raymond, cooked good, honest, country food under his mother’s watchful eye....
...He talks his way into a circus troupe in Normandy, a folk festival in Brittany, a bull-racing competition in the Camargue, a nudist camp in Agde and a fashion show in Paris....
...The rollers of St Ouen’s Bay sigh and crumble in the background, and the sweet, dry song of a lark splinters overhead. I am quietly, but wildly, content....
...Anges (a Quebec-grown, Banyuls-like sweet wine)....
...I first had it in a hotel in Brittany many years ago: it transported me then and will, I hope, do the same for you. ………………………....
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