Bits and pieces

Here's a post I wrote on the literary blog Writer Unboxed, about writing this blog!
http://writerunboxed.com/2011/09/21/food-for-thought-2/

Also, for those of you who read French, a lovely little piece on marketing cassoulet beyond the South of France, from the Toulouse newspaper La Depeche. In it, a chef describes the three varieties of cassoulet as 'If it's from Castelnaudary, it's the father; if it's from Carcassonne, it's the son; if it's from Toulouse, it's the holy spirit'! Otherwise said, observes the newspaper, it's 'baby Jesus in velvet pants..'
Non-French people, be aware: thee's nothing blasphemous about all this, it just expresses great love and the highest compliments that can be paid, in traditionally truffled and pungent language!
http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2011/09/26/1176467-le-cassoulet-se-deguste-a-la-tour-eiffel.html