After the mammoth task of creating our kitchen garden, the first thing we planted was rhubarb and the same plant has treated us for 5 seasons with no signs of decline. Rhubarb is so easy to grow, I don’t do anything at all to it and it produces beautiful fat, red stems. The only small …
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Our bookshelf at Chalet Cannelle is mostly cookbooks and buying new additions is quite a regular event. Living in the mountains, we don’t have an amazing bookstore on our doorstep so a few times a year when we go off to a city for a few days, be it Turin, Lyon or London, we will …
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If you have stayed at Chalet Cannelle you have probably eaten the eggs from our free range chickens and seen that they are completely spoilt. They sit on the doorstep waiting for treats and nibbles from the kitchen and regularly follow our guests to their cars in the hope of something to peck at. I …
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