Jennie Mayle

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The Troisgros has three Michelin stars and a 19½ out of 20 rating in the Gault-Millau Guide. And so it went on, as he adjusted his knee pads and scrubbed away at the floor, a personal guide to five or six of the most expensive restaurants in France that Monsieur Bagnols had visited on his annual treats.
Jennie Mayle
Unfortunately we went to the Trois Gros only once but that was enough to lodge it in our culinary memories forever. It was our last stop going home to Devon after our honeymoon, by which time we were starting to count the francs. This was to be our last blow-out and so it was. I still have the image in my mind of a sweating silver pitcher full of cold red wine, a Beaune I believe, which tasted like Heaven, accompanying a many-course but light meal. Simply divine.
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It was thanks to Peter’s books on Provence that my husband and I, along with our two young boys at the time, met up with a friend and rented a gîte in Bonnieux in 1998. We had a blast visiting the var…
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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