I was actually thinking of these very same cherries this morning, when a friend in France mentioned she’d picked three kilos of cherries. I remembered a summer several years ago, when my sister-in-law, who lived near Grenoble, sent a shoebox of cherries home with my daughter in her suitcase. We enjoyed the heck out of […] Read more…
I was invited to write a guest post at Tea and Strumpets, maybe because they heard I was a fanatic about tea, or maybe because they heard I was a strumpet. Either way, I had fun writing about my favorite subject, and injecting a wee bit of writing advice in there too. What, you didn’t […] Read more…
When I moved to England I found there were very different Christmas customs. I’ve already written about my new favorite holiday, Boxing Day, but I wanted to share some of my new-found favorite foods. Mince tarts are made with mincemeat, which sounds gross, especially if you don’t eat meat. Why would anyone want to make […] Read more…