• Travel with a Twist

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• 17.Mar
• Savon de Provence

• Soap can be purchased anywhere in the world, even le savon from the South of France. Many shops carry it, many grocery stores carry it. But there is nothing like being in a street market in Provence, with tables full of various brand names and the plentiful aromas of Savon de Provence. Such was my [...]

• Food for the Table

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• 18.Feb
• Zucchini Provencal

• Zucchini Provencal in my kitchen One way to use the end of abundant summer growing season vegetables – tomatoes and zucchini – is to make this simple side dish, Zucchini Provencal. Ingredients: 1 onion 2-3 medium sized zucchini 2 tomatoes dried basil ground pepper olive oil Directions: Chop all of the vegetables in large chunks. [...]

• Culture

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• 15.Nov
• Art History: Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Saint-Rémy

• Image at left: The Road Menders, c. November 1889, Saint-Rémy During the time Van Gogh painted The Road Menders, he was still at the hospital in Saint-Rémy, but feeling much better. In his writing to Theo telling him so, he said that he was sending off three parcels to him and let him know that [...]

• Photo of the Day

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• 08.Sep
• Photo Of The Day: Red Tile Roofs Of Arles

• Red tile roofs are a common sight throughout the South of France. Usually when we see photographs of red tile roofs, they are of well maintained, clean, tiles over some rich medieval city center. This red tile roof urban scape is in the center of the old town of Arles, where the view contains not [...]

• Arts Beat

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• 20.Apr
• Henri BAVIERA At Musée de Saint-Paul et l’Espace André Verdet

• A native of St. Paul de Vence, Henri Baviera has had a prolific career nationally and internationally. He has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland and Brazil. For Henri Baviera, this exhibition is a homecoming. For the summer of 2012, the Musée de Saint-Paul and l’Espace André Verdet [...]

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