- Sweet potato pie from Abby Fisher, 1881

 I was planning on giving you the recipe of my sweet potato cake but in between, i heard about Abby Fisher.  Abby Fisher was the first African-American known to have published a cook book. That makes ‘ What Mrs Abby knows about Southern cuisine, soups, pickles…’ the oldest book known written by a former slave. […]

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- Callysthé, the flowered tea from the maquis

Once upon a time, (I love to start my posts by ‘once upon a time’) a Mediterranean island famous for its beauty, wildness, own dialect, goats and saucisson… Corsica.  Countless plants grow in the ‘maquis’ this wild forest that in addition to its beaches make Corsica so unique. It’s said that there is something like […]

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