Bakeries / Places

Ladurée Macarons Are Worth Seeking Out

April 1, 2012

This was my breakfast this morning, entirely for research purpose obviously! I say this with tongue-in-cheek as I must be one of very few people around the world who’s not into the mac craze. I find them too sweet, often tasteless with odd colours. I get they’re cute and dainty but they’re expensive for something [...]

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Roland Feuillas, Les Maîtres de mon Moulin

October 26, 2011

Roland Feuillas runs courses on his ancient grains through his mill in Cucugnan, contact him, contact@farinesdemeule.com, 00 33 4 68 33 55 03 or via his website here. If passing that part of the world visit his bakery and taste the bread baked in his special wood-fire oven. Words I associate with Roland are; passion, mission, generosity, kind, [...]

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Baking with Roland in Cucugnan

October 24, 2011

A week ago today I arrived in Cucugnan to bake with Roland Feuillas in his bakery and learn about what this man so highly spoken of by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac was doing in a small village in the South West of France. I didn’t have a clue what to expect since Jean-Philippe said very little [...]

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King of Wood Fired Ovens in Cucugnan

October 20, 2011

In Roland’s small bakery taking up most of the space is this monster wood fired oven. You can see this is no-model-kit oven, it took 2 men at a time working on it who came from Spain, Ecuador and Colombia a year to build, it has something like 30 or 40 thousand kilos of clay. [...]

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Cucugnan Medieval Village, South of France

October 20, 2011

Here I am, months after my first conversation back in June with Jean-Philippe de Tonnac in Paris while searching for good bakeries, I’ve finally arrived in Cucugnan. Back in Paris on pressing Jean-Philippe to tell me what his favourite bread was he had one name for me; Roland Feuillas. Roland embodies the purest form of [...]

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Holtwhites Bakery in Enfield

September 2, 2011

Richard and Kate are living my dream running a small artisan bakery, Holtwhites in North London Enfield. Richard was a teacher who decided like many of us halfway through our working lives that life is too short and we should live the rest of it doing something we’re passionate about…while we’re still young enough. After [...]

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Breakfast this Morning at Princi – Soho

July 31, 2011

After being told I should try the bread at Princi in Soho, London we decided to have breakfast there this morning. We’ve been having Sunday breakfast in different places with the 4 year old over the last few weeks. This Sunday before breakfast we wanted to drive past Big Ben to show her how big [...]

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Paris – In Search of Bakeries

June 23, 2011

Yesterday I had a fantastic day in Paris visiting bakeries, a favourite pastime of mine and in the company of the charismatic Jean-Philippe de Tonnac. What more can a girl like me ask for? Walking from Gard du Nord we started in a bakery in Montmartre called Coquelicot, where I tasted with my first coffee of the day one [...]

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