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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
This year looks rosy for Cap-Hélix, France’s first certified
organic snail farm, near Goulien in Finistère. The owners,
Didier and Jeannick Bonis, created the farm in 1993 and
despite a general downward trend in the edible snail market,
they reported good Christmas trade.
“We sell to restaurants all year round,” commented
Jeannick Bonis, “but we also sell direct to the public who
boost our sales around Christmas and New Year. Snails are a
traditional dish for many families, who recognise that ours
are top quality.”
Cap-Hélix raises more than 250,000 snails each year of
the petit gris variety, tender enough to hold their own against
cheaper imports from Asia and Ukraine.
And should you be tempted, you need to allow six to 12
snails per serving, which you can buy nature for as little as
€3 a dozen or €7 a dozen stuffed and seasoned and ready
from your oven in less than 10 minutes. A surprisingly quick
dish, snails...
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
The New Year brings
Footsbarn travelling
theatre to Paris. The
company will encamp at the
Cartoucherie de Vincennes
from January 9 until February 9 to mount two touring shows:
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, in English and Victor Hugo’s
‘L’Homme qui rit’, in French.
The two plays demonstrate Footsbarn’s theatrical magic.
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ uses kabuki, commedia
del’arte and clowning for a show layered with imagination,
myth and romance. Six masked actors also take the stage for
‘L’Homme qui rit’, but the more sombre register reveals
cruelty and injustice in an unsure moral universe. Its sparser
style refers to the strolling players, and the roots of
Footsbarn.
The French tour continues until April.
See www.footsbarn.com
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
New laboratory hopes mix of art and science will solve world problems. Teia Maman gets inspired.
Paris now boasts a centre
for innovation, Le
Laboratoire, a 1300m2
working space which brings
together artists and scientists
around a selected theme.
The French-American
scientist David Edwards
created Le Laboratoire in
2007, where art can meet
science head-on. ‘Artscience’
is what Edwards calls his
experimental creation.
“I realised that
researchers, as concentrated
as they are on their ‘Idea,’
must always cross some
cultural barrier in order to
innovate, and that often
occurred through study in an
artistic discipline,” Edwards
explained.
Creativity lies in union
rather than struggle, and
Artscience is the catalyst
provoking two different
modes of thinking to
generate new ideas.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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My termite problem has been
ongoing now for five years. When
I bought my property in July 2002 I had
the all clear from the agence
immobilière and the certificate states
that there were no termites at the time
of inspection. The fact is that the expert
never even visited the house (I have
proof of that as well as proof that the
vendors were quite aware of the
problem before my purchase) but the
court has decided to ignore all the
evidence and states that I must pay
damages to the vendors in spite of the
fact that the property is absolutely
riddled with termites which I
discovered once I’d moved into the
property (the termites and I appeared on
‘Housetrapped in the Sun’, British TV
Channel 4, 2004).
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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Can you please tell me if one has the
right to change one’s mind and
cancel goods that have had to be
ordered because they are out of stock? I
contacted my local car dealer within 24
hours to make such a cancellation and
was told by them that I had no right to
cancel and that I would have to pay for
the goods. They have since backed
down but have told me my name will be
blacklisted among all of their agents.
Name and address supplied
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