La Cabane de l’écailler is this beautiful restaurant that just opened last week on a little street adjacent to the beach. The restaurant is located on l’Avenue des Oliviers”, which is this small street less than 100 m/yard long which is closed for cars Tuesday’s and Thursday’s local market.
I was invited [...]
Belgium endives are most probably one of my favorite vegetables, along with artichokes, wild mushrooms and the sweet very small new potatoes (smaller than a silver dollar). I wonder if it’s because of childhood memories or because I am lazy and don’t like to wash lettuce or is it because I read a while back [...]
I like to read scientific studies where they find health benefits of the things I love, like red wine. I need to find some that look at the health benefits of eating French bread and good butter!!!!
But anyway, I have written about the benefits of red wine before while at Sensei, and I am sure [...]
Artichokes (Cynara cardunculus) have been cultivated in the south of Italy and around the Mediterranean since the XV century. It’s believed that European explorers brought them to the United States in the XVII century. Now California produces most of the U.S. crop and that’s probably why we can find artichokes almost all year round at [...]
The other day I went to visit a friend in Cannes. This time I took the train to get there. In the past I had taken the bus for 1Euro, which is pretty cheap. But it takes about an hour to get there and the bus is often crowded and both times, I had to [...]
The search engines are finding similar headlines all over the internet. But please relax, because again people are not reading the whole study.
Dr. James Corsetti M.D., Ph.D. was not researching the impact of the Mediterranean diet and the risk of heart attacks. He was studying a new drug that was developed to increase HDL [...]