Paris, France – A good old-fashioned ice-cream truck has pulled up onto the posh Place de la Concorde in Paris. The venue, one of the most beautiful in the French capital is […]
Brief Bites: An Ice-cream Idyll from the Crillon
Family Affair: The Marvels of Mauviel
It all began back in 1830 in the Bay of Mount Saint Michel region when Ernest Mauviel founded his kitchen utensil making workshop whose products are known throughout the world today in […]
Perfect Perfumes
Azure. Azure blue, a color that takes its name from the intriguing blue stone the lapis lazuli and which is closely associated with the Mediterranean Sea and in particular the French Riviera, […]
Lasting Lapis Lazuli
The dreamy brilliantly blue gem lapis lazuli has intrigued mankind since Antiquity. It has been known for at least 6,000 years and draws its name from the Persian word lazhward meaning blue […]
Aviation Adventures from Longines
Amelia Earhart would be the first woman aviator to fly solo over the Atlantic. The explorer Paul-Emile Victor organized polar expeditions. The pioneering aviator Elinor Smith was a test and endurance pilot […]
Champagne Time With…
Pertois-Lebrun The champagne house of Pertois-Lebrun delightfully brings out only Blanc de Blancs Grand Crus champagnes from its home base in the town of Cramant in the aptly named Côte des Blancs […]
Gourmet’s Choice
Olive Oils: Original and Organic Olive oil comes to us straight out of Antiquity and probably before. Cultivated by the ancient Greeks and Romans, who planted olive groves in all of their […]
A Moment in Time: Air Time
This is a clock that lives on air. It is a simple mechanism invented by the engineer Jean-Léon Reutter in 1928 and brought out by the Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre in the 1930s. […]
Champagne Time With…
Liqueur St-Germain Paris, France – A nice change of pace from a traditional champagne time is to enjoy a champagne cocktail made with a unique French Made in France craft liqueur, St-Germain. […]
The Mesmerizing Minerals of Jaquet Droz
Minerals are among the treasures of the Earth and the house of Jaquet Droz has a way of bringing them to exuberant life. The house of Swiss watchmaking has perfected the highly […]
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