Magazine Revue - France Today July August 2012

Great stuff! (not on line yet but go to website for other cool stuff from previous issues) and there is a free newsletter if you don't want to subscribe to the paper or the digital edition.

http://www.francetoday.com/

  

• Streets of Paris:  Coffee Cafes: The new Wave - Coffee cafes are all the rage in Paris:  Roasters, coffee revolutionaries, passionate baristas and more
• Names of coffee cafes:  
• http://www.lacafeotheque.com
• http://www.merceandthemuse.com
• http://www.le-bal.fr
• http://www.lerocketship.com

 

• Wine & Spirits  Lillet: Licensed to Chill
• The French came up with the pre-dinner cocktail or the l'heure de l'apero (aperitif hour) long before the first modern cocktail was invented.
• It all started with absinthe nicknamed le fee verte or the green fairy for its color and more!
• Next came tonic wine
• Then Aperitifs as the modern day version
• Paul and Raymond Lillet (matured and macerated in oak casks) blended sauvignon blanc, semillon and muscadelle white wines, citrus liqueurs and the quinine.  Original name was Kina Lillet.
• And the story goes on. 
• It has grown up now to an even new pink verson (with rouge) called Lillet Rose.
• More to the story. It is now a popular aperitif not only in France but worldwide. 

    

  

  

• French Kitchen  Herbs in a Midsummer Garden
• The author lives in Normandy which has a maritime climate. 
• She grows and talks about sage, rue, rosemary, lemon and English and orange balsam thymes, borage, lovage, sweet cicely, garlic chives, bay and she includes a recipe for Basil Sorbet!!

Happy reading or lecture heureuse


Have you seen my Bastille Day blog Parts 1 and 2 and 3 for July 14, 2012:  link below


http://internationalfoodblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/bastille-day-july-14-2012-part-three-le.html


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