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FEASTS & FANCIES @ CHOCOLATE NOTES: EARLY WINTER TEA LOAF
I have always felt comfortable writing in cafés. I have never been able to focus on any kind of work in libraries, not even when I was a student. I find something distracting about the silence, perhaps because libraries aren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged chestnut flour cake, chocolate notes, katia gregor, scribe doll, writing
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A Niçard Scrapbook: The Blue, Blue Sea.
It was one thing I was determined to do in Nice, even more than to see the Dufy collection at the Musée des Beaux-Arts. For weeks, I pictured myself slipping off my sandals and standing in the sea up to … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, côte d'azur, katia gregor, la baie des anges, nice, scribe doll, travel, writing
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FEASTS & FANCIES: HALLOWE’EN @ CHOCOLATE NOTES
At Chocolate Notes, there are no polystyrene cobwebs on the glass front door, no hairy spiders climbing the walls, no plastic bats swinging from the ceiling and no pumpkins with macabre grimaces. Unlike in many other shops and cafés, the … Continue reading
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Tagged food, hallowe'en, katia gregor, scribe doll, squash, writing
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FEASTS & FANCIES: BAROQUE PORRIDGE at CHOCOLATE NOTES
My body and mind are having some difficulty adjusting to Norwich after a few days in the south-east of France. My muscles stiffen against the North Sea wind blowing ruthlessly across the Fens and Broads, my skin feels uncomfortably cold … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolate notes, Cooking, Handel, humour, katia gregor, porridge, scribe doll, writing
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FEASTS & FANCIES: Equinox at Chocolate Notes
There’s a wind blowing and I can feel its chilly breath on my bare toes as it weasels its way through the gaps in our French windows despite the thick draught excluders. You’re never very far from meteorological elements in … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, chocolate notes, Cooking, katia gregor, scribe doll, writing
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The Sorrows and Joys of Translating Italian Dialects
When you translate Italian literature you will, more often than not, come across expressions in one of many dialects or vernaculars. It’s the difficulty and – even more – the joy of being a It>En translator. Here is an article I … Continue reading
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Tagged Italian dialects, katherine gregor, katia gregor, literary translation, Romanesco
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FEASTS & FANCIES: Back to Basic Tomato Sauce
When I am run down emotionally I find preparing food very healing. I choose the word preparing deliberately. Healthy and healing cooking involves preparation. Preparing the ingredients, the utensils, the table. Preparing the dish as a whole. Preparing yourself first … Continue reading
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Tagged food writing, katia gregor, scribe doll, sugo al pomodoro, tomato sauce, writing
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Sinatra and Bennett – soundtracks to a childhood
I was very sad to hear of Tony Bennett’s passing, a couple of weeks ago. The last of the great crooners, I thought. Crosby, Como, Bennett and, of course, Sinatra. I was in Venice when I heard an American tourist … Continue reading
Chocolates Notes is Temporarily Closed
It feels so strange not to have been able to drop into Chocolate Notes these past two weeks. Fiamma is on a mini concert tour, Jan has gone to visit his parents in Antwerp for a few days and Chrystelle, … Continue reading
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On the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death, I am reposting this…
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