The season for dandelion leaf salad slowly comes to an end

  On the corner of every road around here we have been seeing signs saying 'Pissenlit for sale' (pissenlit can literally be transalted as 'piss in the bed' - excuse my French).  In our village of Kuttolsheim, the Weyhaupt farm sells them and that's where I get my...

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Mirabelle: from Alsace or Lorraine?

It is already the season for mirabelles and we can not only see them in the trees all around us, but we are just starting to find them in the local farm shops and markets as well. The big question is where does this delicate, yellow little sort of plum come from? This...

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