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Archives for November 2010

Vaud vineyard wins “Best Merlot” title!

26/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Serendipity: two Vaud gold winners at Mondial du Merlot holding weekend openhouses Morges, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two of the top Merlots in the world, named late Thursday 25 November at the Mondial du Merlot in Ticino, are grown quite close to each other in canton Vaud. The competition, in its third year, had entries from […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Cave Cidis, David King, Domaine de Chantemerle, Domaine Terre-Neuve, Merlot, Mondial du Merlot, Morges, red wine, reds, Switzerland, Tartegnin, Tolochenaz, wine

The woman who will never bake another pumpkin pie

26/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

This Thanksgiving note came in from the American side of the family early Thursday, as the US holiday was getting underway (photos may follow, if she can bear to send them). Names changed to protect the first-time-for-pie granny: “I’m baking 2 pumpkin pies to take to Mark’s & Susan’s tomorrow night. Terry [daughter] couldn’t believe […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: baking, disasters, pumpkin pie

Swiss Alpine garden fresh pumpkin pie

25/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

We harvest 20-40 pumpkins from our Alpine garden every October, dry them for a month on the warm stones of the veranda to harden them off, then store them in a cool dark area for winter eating. We grow them at 1,100 metres altitude, on dirt mixed with a good dose of the neighboring farmer’s […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alps, cooking, fresh, garden, ingredients, pie, pumpkin, Swiss, Switzerland, Thanksgiving

Tipping conundrum overlooks the small coins

23/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

I just wandered through a list of how to tip, how much, where in the world, on the blog Political Calculations, which borrows from some previously published travel and food gurus to create a chart. It seems pretty accurate to me, based on my own travels. One thing is often overlooked in discussions about tipping, […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: credit cards, restaurants, Switzerland, tipping

Cuba Diaries, Isadora Tattlin

23/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

When I wrote about North Korea (Nothing to Envy: Barbara Demick, Real Lives in North Korea) six weeks ago, several people reminded me that there are similar areas of the world that are still frozen in the middle of the last century. Isadora Tattlin’s Cuba Diaries is about four years spent in one of those […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: Cuba, Cuba Diaries, Isadora Tattlin

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