It’s Bastille Day. This French national day commemorates the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789, an important event in Paris in a violent revolution that had begun two days earlier and which would lead to the country becoming a republic. Like most national days, food plays a big part in the celebration and […]

Today is Independence Day. No, we are not talking about the latest film of the name (although while we are on the subject, why did it take 20 years to make a sequel?) but, of course the 4th of July, America Independence Day. Our cousins across the pond will be sitting down in their homes […]