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- After writing 35 cookbooks, performing as a professional cellist, recording 30 music CDs, and traveling the world to meet with chefs and enjoy their fine restaurants —it’s time to write about some of all this. My office is stuffed to the gills with cookbooks, cooking magazines, newspaper recipe clipping, stacks of music, art books, and travel articles. I resolve to start documenting my cooking successes and failures, and I'll write about music, art, artisan foods, travel, things that interest me everyday, and my observations on any number of odd topics. I hope to cause a few laughs and maybe inspire other cooks and food lovers, musicians, and travelers.
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Category Archives: Gifts
The House of Fragonard
A passionate dedication to the magic of perfume! Shortly before the First World War, Eugène Fuchs set up his own perfumery based on the new concept of selling perfume products directly to tourists who were beginning to discover the charms … Continue reading
Assembling Jigsaw Puzzles
The jigsaw puzzle was invented around 1760 by Englishman John Spilsbury. An engraver and mapmaker, Spilsbury attached one of his maps of the world to a piece of wood and then carefully cut out each country. This puzzle was commercially … Continue reading
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