Posts By Alice Verberne
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1.2KLifestyle & CultureAlice Verberne: Meet the Paquets, the winemakers (and reality TV stars) of your dreams
It’s a modern-day fairytale. Boy meets girl (fall in love, get married, live happily ever after) – on their vineyard. There’s this undeniable allure of living as a winemaker in an environment surrounded by...
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1.4KLifestyle & CultureZero-waste culture of rural France means turning life’s lemons into lemoncello
Out here in rural France, there’s a solid tradition of zero waste. The French government was the first to ban supermarkets from discarding food, according the Guardian. Stores now donate this produce...
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1.7KLifestyle & CultureFrench cheese towns: Country living at its best, with bargain homes and artisan produce
At a party, someone once told me that one doesn’t move to France for the cheese. Well then, what for? The wine,...
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1.5KLifestyle & CultureZou bisou bisou: The kissers’ guide to Paris’s most romantic locations
(Editor’s note: With St. Valentine’s Day coming up, American expat in France Alice Verberne has tips about where lovers can find the...
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1.4KLifestyle & CultureFlight of fancy: Alice Verberne takes to French skies in the spirit of Saint-Exupéry
With a childlike curiosity I watch as carpenter bees perform impressive tactical flight maneuvers 20-feet above head. They’re removing the mortar between the stone to install their airport. The “L” in my luck...
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1.8KLifestyle & CultureWine not? How to stock your cellar with great French bargains
My French neighbors do this thing called a “groupage.” It’s where they round up like-minded folks who all have a common interest to...
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2.1KLifestyle & CultureWhere the Wild Ones are: Hunting the famous Cèpe de Bordeaux mushrooms in France
“We will have a bountiful mushroom recoult since our summer was hot and dry,” my neighbor prophesied. Oh, a mushroom hunt! Everyone quietly nodded. They silently confirmed what the oracle had divined as he sat...
