This French Christmas character, the ‘whipping father’, said to accompany Santa on his rounds on 6th December, is fortunately no longer heard of much in French tradition.
Ceramics, paintings and tapestries fill an exuberant Aladdin’s cave of artistic treasures in the old vaulted wine cave of Mas St Vicens in the Saint Gaudrique quarter of Perpignan.
An Elephant in my Kitchen. A chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve.
Franco believed Sardane dancers were passing on coded messages with their feet!
Enamoured of both the beauty and long and fascinating history of Port-Vendres, the Great Port Vendres Tapestry Association was started in July 2015 to create a large tapestry of the history of the town.
Bûche de Noël – Suzanne Dunaway shares her PO-inspired recipes in this weekly blog.
An update of local news in the Pyrenees-Orientales
Fancy a bit of crumpet but can’t find them here in France? Why not make them yourself?
Along the same lines as bouillabaisse, but bolder and more colourful, this rustic Catalan fisherman’s stew is traditionally served on Christmas Eve
Trees used to be festively decorated with red apples until a drought in 1858 destroyed the apple harvest.