For chefs and foodies alike, it's an exciting harbinger of spring: the announcement each year of the new Michelin-star ratings in the latest edition of the Guide Rouge for France. With f...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2024/03/michelins-2024-provence-restaurant-stars.html
In the 40 years that Patricia and Walter Wells have spent at their home Chanteduc in Provence, they amassed an incredible collection of epicurean objects and decorative antiques...including...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2024/03/calling-all-foodies-patricia-wells-is.html
In his studio in L'Isle sur la Sorgue, glass artist Guillaume Roux is offering a great idea for the holidays: the chance to blow your own Christmas ornaments (boules de Noël). A se...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2023/11/make-your-own-glass-ornaments.html
While the days dwindle down to a precious few (as Willie Nelson says) and back-to-school lurks just around the corner, Provence is still crazy crowded...and hot! In fact, they're ...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2023/08/river-kayaking-in-provence-2023.html
For a couple of months in spring 2020, during Covid lockdown in France, we were all forbidden from going further than 1 or 2 km from home…un...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2023/06/fontenille-opens-gorgeous-new-hotel-in.html
After creating it and running it for 18 years, my friend William Moore has decided to put his beloved Provence Paradise on the market. This is a historic hamlet ...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2023/01/provence-paradise-is-for-sale.html
In 2016, Texas-born photographer Jamie Beck was living in New York—running her own studio, doing commercial work for brands such as Chanel, Donna Karan and Nike a...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2022/11/just-out-jamie-becks-provence-book.html
Today the Magnolia Network launched a seven-part "docu-series" called La Pitchoune: Cooking in France, about the Courageous Cooking School , set in Julia Child ’s former home in the South of F...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2022/10/new-tv-series-courageous-cooking-in.html
La Table des Amis de Provence is a new non-profit association based in St. Remy, designed to highlight the food, wine and culture of Provence thr...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-la-table-les-amis.html
The Carrières des Lumières (Quarries of Light) is a magical space in a vast cave-like quarry at the base of the hilltop village of Les Baux de Provenc...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2022/03/venice-in-les-baux-at-carrieres-des.html
Most people know that Sir Ridley Scott (he was knighted in 2003), is one of the top film directors in the world; his movies include Gladiator, A...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2022/02/action-ridley-scotts-winery-is-open.html
It's truffle season in Provence! Our famous fresh black truffles, considered one of the most prized and expensive food products on earth,...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/12/truffles-in-paradise-markets-fests.html
Because I totally live to please you, once again I've rounded up a great selection of American Thanksgiving celebrations here in the South of France and in Paris. Who attends these gala soir...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/11/youre-invited-thanksgiving-in-france.html
Periodically people ask me where they can get counselling in Provence in English...it’s not so easy to find. So when I come across someone really good who does just that, I’m very happy to...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/10/want-to-talk-about-it.html
Having led art retreats in Provence for four years now, Nicky Ginsberg has just moved her NG Art Creative Residency & Gallery into a beautiful new spa...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/09/win-three-week-stay-in-provence.html
It's that time again: The 38th annual Journ é es du Patrimoine (Heritage Days) takes place Saturday and Sunday, September 18 and...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/09/heritage-days-are-sept-18-19.html
On a hot sunny day, river kayaking is a fabulous way to while away a few hours...and doing it in Provence is super easy. You can kayak (and stand-up paddleboard) on the Rhône fro...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/06/river-kayaking-in-provence.html
So many wineries to visit, so little time! How do you narrow the list? This week I reached out to Ivan Mandelli, head sommelier at the Michelin one-star Maison Hache in Eygalieres, and ask...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/05/ask-sommelier-5-great-vineyards-to-visit.html
A new Avignon-based company called Hike Provence is offering private guided hikes across the region along with organized group hikes on set days that a...
It's now been a year since the EU closed its borders to much of the outside world. For those of us who rely on tourism to make a living, the impact has been monumental. But of course I don't ...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/03/art-in-the-time-of-covid.html
Three photos above: who wouldn't want to wake up here? This gorgeous eight-bedroom, eight-bath villa was crafted from an 18th-century olive mill, just a short drive from Les Baux. ...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2021/01/17-perfect-provence-vacation-rentals.html
Every day I hear from people telling me how they can’t wait to travel again...and can’t wait to get back to France. Meanwhile, I thought the newest French Country...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2020/12/win-copy-of-2021-french-country-diary.html
The following story might seem familiar to some of you but I hope to many of you it won't! I originally published it on October 31, 2011 about something that had happened nine years earlie...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2011/10/my-big-expat-gardening-gaffe.html
In France, when you hear the name "Lafourcade" what comes immediately to mind is the impeccable restoration of gorgeous, historic estates, usually in an aristocratic, 18th-century style. But...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2020/09/20-questions-for-alexandre-lafourcade.html
My friends Debbie and Marcel van Eenennaam are the owners of Ferme Fleurie , a large, wholesale flower farm just outside Tarascon, ...
http://theprovencepost.blogspot.com/2020/08/peony-confetti-made-in-provence-with.html