Despite the official arrival
of spring time, rainy days keep coming by and are rather bleek ...
except
perhaps in La Chaux-de-Fonds! Really ?! … and why ?
Well, simply because of Exposition Sud, Atelier Gourmet
- a restaurant - bar and deli of fine smelling sun drenched produce,
that
Mickael Nicolas and Porret Delaplanche have had the good sense to open
earlier
this year, in the heart of the village.
After the macarons, the traditional cake thought the worst was over... But alas not... mini or oversized, the Cupcake has finally landed in the
country, more precisely in Geneva, in a new shop called “Cupcakes and the City”.
This mouth watering
temptation, is a real institution made in the USA that is proud of its
image, especially with its irresistible
glittery-pearly-creamy-butter topping.
Not only a real pleasure for the eye but for the taste too!
Winter is back and its time to take your
vitamins!
No, no, no, not those ones in bottles, the real
ones: those contained in vegetables coming directly from the farms of the Vaud
region.
And how, you ask? With Les Jardins du Flon and d’Ouchy,
of course!
Did you know that Madagascar
exports two-thirds of the world’s vanilla?... and My Little Black Book has
found the vanilla expert in Switzerland!
Yoann Cassam comes from the “Vanilla Island”, Madagascar and descends
from a renowned family of vanilla curers and exporters.