Culinary creation by Chef Chantel Dartnall - Mosaic Restaurant, Château des Tesnières After about 1000 pages of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, I was starting to think enough is enough. Someone asked me why I kept reading. I grappled with that question. "There are times when I revel in the finesse of his observations." That now stated, I continued reading, in search not only of lost time but also of lost finesse. Ours is an age where all discourse and expressi

Just let yourself be entirely seduced by the irrepressible attraction of the springtime, and beyond any particular season, by the absolute and ineffable beauty of life that has no other plan than to draw you into its dance.

The sight of one of these newly-formed leaves, just like the sight of a hatched chick or a newborn baby, inspires la tendresse.

When all hope has failed Let us enter into this momentous and fearful new year with great espérance. The English language glibly gobbled...