As We Said: Insects the Nouvelle Cuisine – UN
Toulouse-based French entrepreneurs have been way ahead of the game in developing and marketing haute cuisine insect menus for discerning gourmets and now their efforts have been given official UN endorsement (or almost). As first reported here Some Red with your Grilled Water Scorpions? and here France’s First Farm Food Drive-In is in Bordeaux, Toulouse-based entrepreneurs such [...]
Caveat Emptor – A French Foodies Horror Movie
Will French chefs join the Food Resistance — still offering real bistro-cooked menus — or does famine await French foodies faced by the inexorable rise…
French Pilots Union Concern Over Maintenance
The pan-European, Toulouse-based Airbus Industrie has an excellent safety record, but following a recent air safety incident, an Air France pilots’ union has expressed concern about a trend for Boeing and…
Symphony Of Summer Cygale Sound Ahead
The summer music festivals in France are rightly a highly-praised vaste enterprise, but there is one concert not widely featured on the national music menu – the…
World Organ Day – 850 concerts on 5 continents
May 6th 2013 is World Organ Day with 850 concerts spanning the globe, led by the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in an event marking…
No Buzz this Spring? Time for Plan Bee
As the European Union rolls out a two-year moratorium on certain pesticides, beekeepers warn that despite a welcome…
Toulouse Unveils Sunflower Power on the Streets
Toulouse is set to use sunflower power to light the city’s streets as it test-beds a locally manufactured…
Olive Oil from Sunny Provence? Hmm …
While olive oil is indelibly linked to the Mediterranean lifestyle, is it really all its packaged up to…
Does Paris Love its Kiosks Enough?
Paris has had a love affair with its ornate newspaper kiosks for the past 150 years but there…
The French Onion: ‘Killed’ for a Chocolatine?
Reports of an abandoned family ‘trapped’ for three days on a broken-down Montparnasse moving pavement, or the Toulouse ‘shooting’ of…
Les Halles and The Little Shards of Paris
Les Halles in Paris, knocked down in the torpor of summer 41 years ago, was the foodies paradise…
Toulouse Conference Celebrates Canal du Midi
Toulouse this summer hosts the 26th World Canals Conference in celebration of the 240km-long Canal du Midi, an…
Cash-in, Keep Track of the Cuckoo
In France le coucou – the herald of Spring — is closely associated with the feast of St.…
Rocamadour Holds a 1000-Year Celebration
Rocamadour, the second most visited tourist attraction in France, is celebrating a millennial in 2013 amid signs that…
It’s Save the Frogs Time – Yes Really
Time to Save the Frogs — or better their legs — as global culinary demand for these sparks…
Cahuzac ‘Lies’ Damage Socialist Credibility
At a time of national belt-tightening, deep worry over jobs and growing disenchantment with the Socialist government, it…
A Paris Bridge That Might Have Been X-Rated
This curiosity might have become the first X-rated bridge in Paris much to the chagrin of modern tourists…
Light on the Dark Horses of the Camargue
The South African poet, adventurer, romanticist and bullfighter Roy Campbell wrote his bravura autobiography Light on a Dark Horse, after a spell…
Invisible, Undetectable Speed Cameras en route
Tempted to speed on those long, straight relatively uncluttered French roads? Well be warned because from Friday March 15, 300 Renault…
France threatens to fine ‘illegal’ Skype
Is Skype a telephone service or a computer application? Skype owner Microsoft says it’s the latter, the French…
Roi François I, Fire Lizards and the Occult
In writing about the salamander both Leonardo da Vinci and Paracelsus linked it with the elemental of fire and…
Grenache – the New Wine Blockbuster?
Will Grenache really roll off the tongue with the same alacrity as Cabernet or Chardonnay? The organisers of the Grenache Symposium,…
Going … The Great Dishes of France?
John Baxter an Australian author film critic, biographer and Paris resident for more than two decades is a…
Are French Screen Actors Overpaid?
French cinema had a calamitous 2012 says Vincent Maraval, founder of the film distribution company Wild Bunch, and…
Notre-Dame de Chartres Returns to XIII.c Glory
Two million visitors a year walk in expectation of awe through the doors of Chartres, one of France’s…
Chevalgate: Ever Seen Fish That Eat Pig?
Meat manufactured like a motorcar, farmed fish fed on pig — Chevalgate has provoked an outpouring of worried reportage…
France’s First Farm Food Drive-In is in Bordeaux
You can drive-in for MacDo or Quick fast food around France, so why not a drive-in farm? Well…
Horse Lasagne Canters Through EU Food Chain
What a canter it’s turning out to be. Chevalgate has gripped the media, muckraker Upton Sinclair might make a comeback…
Four and Twenty Merle … in a Corsican Pie
There’s a French saying, “Faute de grives, on mange des merles”(No thrushes? eat blackbirds) which basically means half a…
Making Digital AfterLife Commit Suicide
In the US digital AfterLife and its termination is a boom business while in France preparing to extinguish…