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Chocolate Glam!

1 July 2010

Is chocolate really a surrogate for the man in your life?

Should it not rather be the reverse? And so in the end, they are frankly both compatible?

It’s this philosophy that has been revisited by the incredible chocolatier -  Beschle!


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A little southern air...
8 April 2010

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.

 


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Sweet sweets!

3 December 2009

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!

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Downtown Garden!

15 October 2009

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!  

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Black Gold
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.


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