Hello, young Padawan     It was known before the French Revolution and is back in fashion today.   Indeed, today’s recipe were presented for the first time on July 12, 1788, on the occasion of a dinner offered to the municipal officers of Gap, a French town in Dauphiné.   As you probably guessed, today we will make a dauphinois gratin,…

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          “If there were no winter, spring would not be so pleasant. If we didn’t experience adversity, success wouldn’t be so appreciated.”. Ann Bradstreet.               Hello, young Padawan     Winter is here, and no more leaves to be scattered by the wind; all that’s missing is the good dry cold after the snow and the great white sun, which…

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          Hello, young Padawan     Here we are at the end of this holiday season, where the alcohol vapors have gone away, but not the migraine, which has set in.   But don’t panic because this year, we are starting with a new idea for an anti-hangover recipe, namely healthy for the liver and the digestive sphere in general, and ready in less time than…

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      «The only one I could have played with my whole life was Miles Davis. He taught me that music was a solitary journey into an unexplored wilderness. Sometimes, he said, we come across people with whom we share a part of the path, and then we set off alone again on the dunes. »*           Hello, young Padawan     When it comes…

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    “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” Bill Moyers.           Hello, young Padawan     In the city of Detroit, not far from the Mowtown Museum, there is a timeless, grayless, and anything-but-ordinary place: the Northwestern Goldberg. It is a disused neighborhood that local artists have decided to invest in to offer neighbors an open-air museum.   Here, creativity and colors are…

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