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Food & dining
UK’s Waitrose starts exports to Manor
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Some 120 Waitrose supermarket products will be available at Manor in Switzerland, starting with the Geneva store, as of this week, the UK company announced Monday 26 September. It has been exporting its products since 1996 and now sells to 47 countries, but it is keen to expand in Europe. Sales outside […]
Visit, tasting session: 100 years celebration (Semaine du goût)
Confiserie Monnier in Fribourg is one of the country’s fine old chocolate makers and the welcome mat is out for the 100th anniversary celebration
Bénichon in Fribourg
Once a parish festival, then the harvest celebration and now a popular 3-day fête centred around local products – gourmand meals, festivities, dancing.
Semaine du goût: beautiful “nothingness” in wine
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – An accolade of enormous value was given to Chasselas by a notable Japanese wine critic last week. Journalist Katsuyuki Tanaka, reports Pierre-Emmanuel Buss in Le Temps, praised the white wine so inextricably linked to its birthplace, the Lake Geneva region, in a speech entitled “Chasselas is nothing”. Nothing […]