As Easter approaches, chocolate shop windows and supermarket shelf space are filling with bunnies carrying eggs in baskets or in sacks slung over their back, pushing eggs in a wheelbarrow, pulling them in a cart, or sitting on a nest of eggs. Aside from selling a lot of chocolate, what’s the idea?
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Chocolate, eggs and Swiss Easter Rice Tart
St. George’s Day at Pickwick Pubs across Switzerland
April 17 through 23, 2009. Real ale from www.spiffing-ales.ch and British cheese from www.cheeseclub.ch at Pickwick Pubs (www.pickwick.ch) on these dates:
Baden, Friday April 17, from 5 p.m.
Zurich, Saturday April 18, from 5 p.m.
Lucerne, Sunday April 19, from 5 p.m.
Zug, Tuesday April 21, from 7 p.m.
Bern, Wednesday April 22, from 6 p.m.
Basel, Thursday April […]
Ballenberg re-opens, Brienz (BE)
April 10, 2009. The Swiss Open-Air Museum Ballenberg re-opens after its annual winter hibernation. Ballenberg is where some 100 homes and farms from virtually every part of Switzerland have been re-assembled on 66 hectares of land. There are fields, 250 farm animals, and lovely old-style gardens. And there are crafts people at work […]
Changing seasons
A project I’m presently working on - a magazine called Terrific Terroir - has me out and about talking to fruit & veg growers in Geneva. It’s particularly interesting to see what produce they’ve got now, in this transition period between winter and spring.
Denise Adler of Directdujardin in Bellevue, who sells at the […]
Seafood tasting in Préverenges (VD)
March 5, 2009. Word is just in from the business networking group Executives International: “Do hope we can tempt you to join a little further on the lakeside in Préverenges for a slightly different networking event on Thursday next week. An informal, interactive (but strictly non-commercial) event and ideal opportunity to make some […]
Of hearts and muesli
Somehow the February issue of the Heart-to-Heart Email Newsletter landed in my e-mail in-tray. The bulletin is put out by WomenHeart, the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. I learn that February is Heart Month in the US (also Canada). I also learn that - contrary to the accepted wisdom that heart attacks are […]
Expovina Primavera, Zurich-Oerlikon
March 19-26, 2009. In 2008, 10,000 visitors tasted over 2,000 wines at this big Swiss wine event. The most-in-demand vintages were from Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Austria; of New World wines, California wines were particularly sought-after. What will the favorites be this year? Find out at the Messezentrum Zurich, Halle 9 beim Theater 11. Opening […]
Wine and Gourmet Fair in Weinfelden (TG)
March 12-15, 2009. With 120 exhibitors featuring Swiss and world wines, fine foods, gourmet accessories, and loads of activities, including cooking “duels” - the ninth Schlaraffia fair promises to deliver a worthwhile visit. Venue: Weinfelden Zentrum. Opening hours: 4-10 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. on Saturday, and 11 a.m. - […]
Cheesy Valentine’s gifts
Word is just in from Michael Jones at the Cheese Club in Thalwil (ZH): “Hello Cheese Lovers! I thought I’d tell you about 2 Cheesy Valentine’s Gift ideas - for him and her (actually a mild and strong pack, it’s up to you who gets to them first!). We can include a hand […]
Open House Days, Vini Toscani, Perroy (VD)
February 26 to March 1, 2009. This collection of choicest Tuscan wines is available nowhere else in Suisse Romande, and the tasting experience itself - animated exchange (English spoken) over a bowl of pasta - makes discovering them even more pleasurable. More at www.vinitoscani.ch