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Château de Haute-Serre (Cahors)

Today I enjoyed the finest restaurant meal of my life. La Table de Haute-Serre – the recently created restaurant of Château de Haute-Serre – is a little known gem in South West France. There were two lunchtime formulas on offer:  €25-00 gets one an entrée and plat (starter and main course) and €35-00 includes dessert. I ordered [...]

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Roger Moore and I are no longer friends

There once was a bond between us.  Roger Moore has messed it up … big time.  After all, everyone wants to be my friend. He announced this by way of an interview which was published in the February 2010 issue of  The Connexion, which is The Newspaper for English-Speakers in France. Roger is on a crusade against something [...]

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Preparing the foie gras

Translation: foie = liver gras = fattened I have South African visitors arriving here on Boxing Day. I know that they will want to try some regional cuisine and delicacies. Foie gras is a definite must for them. And so I have been gavaging (gorging) my geese with 3kgs of grain twice a day to [...]

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