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Tag: travel

  • The Landscape Beneath the Garden

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    There’s something fascinating about travelling through Provence with a group led by garden designer and writer Michael McCoy. After only a few days, you stop seeing gardens as isolated things. They become part of a much bigger landscape – geology, agriculture, climate, architecture, history and food all folded together. Today started with another private garden…

  • 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…