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Archives for September 2012

Wines to go with Swiss game, with hunting season in swing

28/09/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Game is hugely popular in France and Switzerland this time of year, with dates for hunting deer, chamois and ibex varying slightly between cantons, but you’ll find it on restaurant tables and in grocery stores everywhere. Small game are hunted a bit later, mainly in October. For a better understanding of hunting […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: boar, civets, game, Geneva Gamay, Humagne Rouge, matching food and wine, pairing, Syrah, venison

World’s top Merlots are Swiss, French, Romanian and Lebanese

28/09/2012 by Ellen Wallace

Bordeaux takes top prize, Ticino winery named world champion GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Earl Roumage winery in St Germain du Puch, France, won both the Best Merlot Varietal (single grape) and the Best Foreign Varietal Merlot prizes at the Mondial du Merlot wine competition, the Vinea Association in Sierre announced Friday 28 September. Cantina Monti […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: best blend, best varietal, France, Lebanon, Merlot, Mondial du Merlot, Ticino, Vaud, Vinea Association, wine competitions

Egg yolk separating made easy, blurp!

26/09/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Since 12 million people have viewed this video, you might already know how to separate eggs this way, but it was news to me. Anyone tried it?

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Chinese kitchen, separating eggs

Autumn announced by migratory birds

26/09/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Autumn is here, four days after the official arrival, the 22 September equinox that occurred shortly before 16:00 last Saturday. Migratory birds are pausing to rest on Lake Geneva by the thousands en route from the northern Europe to southern homes where they winter, reports the Swiss Ornithological Institute, which has several […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: autumn, bird migrations, chestnut trees, collecting, Max stork, mushroom gathering, Switzerland, vendange, wine harvest

Prettiest little garden guest

25/09/2012 by Ellen Wallace

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND –  My weekend mountain garden, end of the season tidying, was brightened by this beautiful little Swiss Alpine butterfly, who stayed next to me for the longest time. What a beauty! I believe it’s called Eros blue, based on a number of photos on the site eurobutterflies by Matt Rowlings, where he notes […]

Filed Under: Food & dining Tagged With: Alpine, altitutde, Butterfly, Eros blue, Switzerland, Valais

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