It's spring, and summer is fast approaching - on the 21st we'll be there. Barbecues and salads will be the order of the day for a few months, with aperitifs and fine dining among friends and family. I've prepared 3 "special barbecue" mixes, one traditional, one west-facing and one east-facing. The latter is a blend of [...]
It's decided, the barometer seems to want to stay on the up and up, so the barbecues are out. Olive wood, beech wood or charcoal for the less patient, it doesn't matter what you use as long as you've got embers. So get out your chicken legs (or sleeves only), remove the skin (except for the [...]) and [...].
Alexander's conquest of India... 326 B.C. // year 47 We stopped at the beginnings of the future Suez Canal, 500 years B.C., which would have made it possible to avoid the long route taken by Ishmaelite merchants to Egypt. Alexander the Great entered India from the north-west in 326 B.C. when he [...].
In the beginning... 4300 B.C. // 520 B.C. The discovery and trade of spices has seen empires rise and cities fall, and great powers succeed one another, but it has also served to bind together different eras of human history. The spice trade was the starting point for [...]
Barigoule is originally a mixture of mushrooms stuffed with bacon, shallots and carrots. There are different ways of writing it, depending on the era and region of Provence (bérigoule, barigoula, barigoulo, brigoule, bourigoule or baligoule). Our recipe here is much simpler. For [...]
Here we are, our organic grocery store is now online, and our first article! What a pleasure, a long and beautiful story will be written throughout these pages, these years as we travel and discover around the world. November will be our "first" trip (first for Place des Epices, because we travel [...]).