Ingredients : 6 egg yolks2 whole eggs1 litre of milk200gr sugar1 vanilla beanfresh blackberries Preheat your oven at 180°C. Start by heating up the milk, sugar and vanilla bean.While you wait for it to boil, whisk together the yolks and…
Ingredients : 2 teaspoons bees wax1 teaspoon cocoa butter2 tablespoons coconut oil10-15 drops of essential oil of choice (optional) Mix all of the ingredients (except for the essential oil if your are using any) into a mason jar, then put…
Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, The secret life of bees, has been eye opening for many reasons, but it has also stimulated my imagination when I was not holding the book. See, I’ve never been to the American South, so all…
I think I was about 10 or 11 when I first heard of the American South and its complicated history. I was presented with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and frankly I don’t know if I understood a gread…
Every culture has its own way of questioning reality. The western world speaks of a great illusion, like a mind trick played to all of us, and usually does not offer solutions or positive perspectives to this hypothesis. The eastern…
If you wish to prepare an afternoon cream tea fit for a queen, get ready to test the easiest scones recipe out there. All you’ll need is some clotted cream (or mascarpone if you can’t find any), strawberry jam, and…
Isn’t it fascinating how books become classics ? Enchanted by a recently published novel, we tend to label it “a modern classic”. But who can really tell which ones are going to pass the test of time ? History proved…
Do you remember the moment you realised the magic of reading ? What was the book that opened the gates ? For the symbol of the 10th book I am presenting here, I chose to speak about the one novel,…
Do you ever find yourself dreaming of something that seems impossible to attain ? How do you find the clarity to choose between realistic goals and fantasies not worth pursuing ? Today, I’m bringing to you the memoir of one…
The first novel I ever read in Spanish was his. El amor en los tiempos des colera. It was before I even took a Spanish class and the fact that I understood what I was reading, as if by a…
