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When the Cows Come Home, Fall Celebration in Saint Cergues, Switzerland

Cows are intimidatingly large up close and personal, I found out during the Desalpes celebration in Saint Cergue, Switzerland last weekend. In the mountainous communities of Eastern France and Switzerland, the village cows are herded up to Alpine meadows in the spring so that they can enjoy a summer’s worth of grassy delicacies which infuse the cheese which later is made from their milk. In the fall, they are brought back down in great parades, their heads dressed with flower garlands. I had never witnessed these cavalcades, so early last Saturday morning I crowded onto the little three car train... Read more →

Baby Clams with White Wine Abruzzo Style

Venice – the city on the lagoon, tragically sinking year after year, crisscrossed with narrow canals plied with water taxis, gondolas and the ubiquitous brown UPS boat. Our current selection in the Cook the Books group is “1000 Days in Venice”, a romantic memoir which I have to say I picked up with trepidation as romance books are not really my thing. But the mystique of Venice got the better of me and I sat down to give it a read. I visited Venice in May of 2000 something, thinking it would be like spring, but a cold rain fell... Read more →