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May events in the Swiss Romandie are sure to put Spring in your step
AH, MAY! One of the best months of the year in the Swiss Romandy to get out and celebrate everything that is creative: arts and crafts, gardening, music, dance, museums and more. Here is the best of it, short and sweet, to help you squeeze every ounce of pleasure out of the month ahead. UniCréa, Salon de la Création, Yverdon…
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Traveller’s tip: When in Lugano, Switzerland, remember to look up!
I HAVE been longing to get back to Lugano in the southeast, Italian-speaking part of Switzerland since I last visited it about 23 years ago with my sister Virginia, who was visiting us at our home in Basel in northwest Switzerland for Christmas. It was only a 4-hour train journey each way, which was part…
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Cappuccino gets star treatment at Boréal
OF LIFE’S simple pleasures, surely a beautifully made cappuccino ranks high on the list. But it’s surprising how many coffee shops get it all wrong: bitter coffee, lifeless froth, no heart put either into or onto the precious brew. So I was completely won over after trying a cappuccino at the boréal espresso lab (that’s…
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Quick, easy, spicy: tomato & cannellini bean soup with harissa & honey
A FEW years ago I subscribed to delicious. magazine as a birthday gift for my husband, who loves to cook (and is very good at it, too). It’s turned out to be one of our best and reasonably priced “investments”. We always find at least two or three recipes that we have to try out…
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Guillaume Bichet in Coppet: chocolate made with a delicate, contemporary artisanal touch
WHEN in 2011 Guillaume and Elodie Bichet opened their eponymously named Confiserie-Pâtisserie in an enticing shop near the medieval stone fountain on Coppet’s charming Grand-Rue in Canton Vaud, clearly fine-food lovers were in for something special.
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