A wedding reception is one of most important events that you may want to cater for yourself. So after all the hard work of writing A Banquet on a Budget I thought it would be fun to ask my friend food writer and food stylist, Louise Pickford who lives in south west France with her…
Planning a Wedding Reception? Save Thousands by Self-Catering
Statistics show that the average wedding reception costs £7,000. You can save a good deal of this amount by doing the catering yourself. The money you have saved can then be spent on the honeymoon or put towards a down payment on your new home. However, catering for a large scale celebration can be daunting….
Adopt an Olive Tree
From time to time I get emails from olive growers offering the chance to adopt an olive tree in their grove. The idea of adopting an olive tree sounds quite intriguing and so I thought I would have a further look at the idea. First of all I wondered why would anyone want to adopt…
Swiss Olive Oil
Swiss olive oil – what nonsense you say, yet just down to road from my Swiss home there are numerous olive trees growing happily in the Ticino sunshine. This part of Switzerland, south of the Alps, boasts a Mediterranean style of climate and the weather is such that olive trees can not only survive here…