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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Celebrity Chef


Our trip to Provence was wonderful. The weather was great, the food excellent, the markets fabulous, and the one in Nice had a celebrity shopping next to us. Yes, that is Jacques Pepin! RXC and I are huge Jacques fans. We own most of his cookbooks and the few TV shows we watched in the US were his (when cooking with Julia our favorite). I heard 2 men discussing directions in French, looked up and saw one of my food idols. Luckily camera was at hand.
I will be putting up more photos of the trip and update the posting later today. There was a paella at the market in Aix en Provence to die for. Stay tuned.

1 comment:

beeinstitches said...

What a great picture! That is too cool that you saw him. What was he pointing at? Probably wondering where the little goat guy's stand is??? Oh, No, Jacques, he's at the Ste. Foy Le Grande market. C'est dommage pour vous!
Karen