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Sample from La Tartine Gourmande: Recipes for an Inspired Life If you have been a regular reader of this blog, you know that, about one month and a half ago, I launched the presale of my cookbook, La Tartine Gourmande: Recipes for an Inspired Life. I recently reflected on the making of the book, realizing [...]

Mashed Celeriac and Potato Recipe Hello everyone, I wish I could be here more often these days but it’s just not happening right now. We have renovation going on upstairs in our house, side projects, my parents arriving next week, and simply the business of every day life–we are all on the same boat, aren’t [...]

Scene inside a café in the Blue Mountains I should have known that when visiting Jamaica, I would love the island. I knew it when, for the first time, I saw Jamaicans’ faces. When I caught sight of their welcoming smiles. When I heard the way they spoke. I loved the melody of their accent, [...]

Back in October, when there were still gorgeous looking homegrown apples around us, we could leave the kitchen windows open and walk outside bare legged, I met Margaret and Max for the first time. Together, we shot the video trailer for my cookbook. Margaret and Max are the talented photographer duo behind Unusually Fine. Working [...]

Raspberry charlotte, a recipe from my cookbook I’m holding this moment close to my heart. On Christmas day, we celebrated Lulu’s birthday. She turned three. I am amazed we are already there. It’s an amazing age of innocence and curiosity for every detail of life. The time when her world is filled with teddy bears, [...]