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Continue reading →: Dijon, Mustard, and RapeseedWhat’s In A NameNo sooner did I see the name ‘Dijon’ on our map in the car as we drove to the town from Lyon in May than I could almost taste the delicious, grainy mustard for which the town is so well known. Having decided to take ‘the slow…
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Continue reading →: The Bee’s Knees‘Bee Amazed’ by the Following Facts About Bees Bees have been producing honey from flowering plants for between 10 to 20 million years. The average honey bee only makes 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey during its lifetime. Bees are actually a highly specialized form of wasp. Bees have four…
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Continue reading →: Pablo Neruda Poetry And PoliticsThree days after Pablo Neruda was hospitalized with cancer in his native country of Chile in the autumn of 1973 after having been very ill for some weeks before, he died of heart failure on September 23rd at the age of 69. However, it wasn’t in just any month that…



