Rough Cut Kitchen

Tag: gardening

  • Bonnieux

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    Dennis Franklin
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    Today felt like a study in sculptural thinking – first in landscape, then in wood. In Bonnieux we visited La Louve, the extraordinary garden created by Nicole de Vésian. What strikes you immediately is restraint. Nothing shouts. The garden is clipped, pared back, disciplined – yet somehow deeply emotional. Rounded shrubs echo the hills of…

  • Rough Cut Kitchen – Notes from the Calanques

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    Dennis Franklin
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    We spent today in the limestone country of the Calanques National Park outside Marseille, and it is impossible not to think about food when you walk through a landscape like this. The Mediterranean landscape has a particular harshness to it. White limestone cliffs. Thin dusty soils. Dry wind. Salt air. Everything is sun-bleached and water…