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THE PRESENT FOR HIM THE POST MODERN-MAN
A WEEK END WITH MIAM MIAM TO BITE HIM INTO SOME SPICES
You want to wish him a happy birthday, or father’s day? Celebrate the day you met or get married? Or just simply kidnap a guy that you fancy for a weekend? OK. Forget about the ties, aftershaves or the latest electronic diary. Never mind the glossy magazines girls, the trip to Deauville or the coast. In any case, the coffee is as expensive as on the Champs Elysees and everyone is bored and shivering in their barbour jackets.
A smart girl like you, who works, drive a smart car and wears leather trousers or suits and roller blades, obviously knows how to please the “new men” the fragile darlings, the house husbands and the studs, passionate about cooking, good meals and good wines carefully stored.
In his thirties, forties or sixties you can delight your big bad wolf by kidnapping him for two days without warning (two days – that’s reasonable). Just say “it’s a surprise, I am taking you and you’ll see…”
Where? A countryside between the “garrigues” and the “Cevennes” a village call Aulas between sea and mountain. A large old residence, an ancient silk factory with cellars cut into the rock, old vaults from the 12th century set in a park in the center of the village; ladybirds and little birds guaranteed.
Here as Confucius said twenty five centuries ago there are two ways to reach paradise: Sex and Food. The beauty of spices is that they are both useful and pleasurable. Did you know that vanilla and jasmine liqueur is an aphrodisiac for men as well as women? That nutmeg has been as been used as an erection stimulant for centuries? That cloves and ginger…But we will stop there! We will not mention ginseng, grain mustard, celery, coriander, oregano, saffron… And the 80 spices that allow you to tour the world without leaving your kitchen.
Over two days you will cook and enjoy savory dishes with spices in salads, main courses, desserts.
Under the enlightened direction of Patrick du CROS (fifty times around the world so far!) you will taste – in the atmosphere of the park, in the corner by the wood fire, in the lounge – the fruits of your findings.
Not forgetting the siestas and the walks to collect things in the surrounding forests.
When you return, happy, replete, relaxed, your companion will thank you for a magical cooking tour which will stay with you into the future and help you to entertain your friends.
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