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He stays the night to discover the man is gathering acorns and steadily planting them throughout the barren landscape. The landscape and the people of the region are transformed over time. Giono lived in one small town near to us his entire life. He was a master in storytelling. He wrote about this work saying: \"The goal was to make trees likeable, or more specifically, make planting trees likeable.\" He considered the book a great success as it was translated in a multitude of languages and distributed freely. He noted that, although \"it does not bring me a cent\", it is one of the texts of which he is most proud. An excellent documentarian of people and how to make change. 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Best way, in my opinion, is sliced thin and marinated in olive oil with rosemary and lemon, or orange and juniper for 1 hour before stirring the blend into warm linguine, always adding a little cooking water from the pot. Prepared as described, this piece will serve 8. Keep some aside to grate on the top at the end. A traditional Mediterranean food, the Italians claim they invented it, the French say they did, the Greeks too. History will never let us know. The good news is it's delicious.  Concentrated and with a bite. Our supply is from a producer in Martigues, near to Marseille, see image. A lot of devotion goes into every bite, it makes anything normal into something special. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KIOSK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42880966951063,"sku":"O5","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0014\/5634\/1052\/products\/PXL_20210604_121031308.jpg?v=1624378714"},{"product_id":"pincinox","title":"Pincinox","description":"\u003cp\u003eStainless Steel\u003cbr\u003eSet of 10\u003cbr\u003eFRANCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust how many pinches can one have? That's a random question that can be answered equally with the question, how many different kinds of chips can one eat? Pinches and chips are not globally the same. This pinch, the Pincinox, was invented in 1970 by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLouis Violet was an engineer in Fos-sur-Mer, not far from Marseille. His son Alain worked in the same and every weekend they retreated to their factory to produce goods. One wonders how they could devote all their free time to a single clip but theirs was not a work, but instead a labor of love, filled with conviction, to do better and to be better. Bent from one piece of stainless steel the Pincinox can not break. It takes an incredible amount of persistence to alter it. It does not rust. It holds clothes on almost any line equally as well and it clips together a bag of anything you put in front of it. Once in place it does not pop off. An excellent tool with multiple applications. I have even used it to hold some pants up when I was without a belt. Comments did come. Pincinox remains a family business with the new generation in the process of taking over;  it is still manufactured and packaged by hand with the same solid belief that it is good for you and good for the planet too. A no waste \/ less haste kind of product, it will not deteriorate or break. The only drawback- now incredible US duty fees on steel coming from France. 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Keep your thoughts clear and you will be amazed by what you extract from this book. I find it in the houses of all of our friends in the region. This is not a cookbook but a study of the cuisine of the region. It's a great read. Currently not in print, these are lightly used copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KIOSK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40362946756759,"sku":"","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0014\/5634\/1052\/products\/Provencecookbook_1.jpg?v=1624547561"},{"product_id":"lavender-oil","title":"Lavender Oil","description":"\u003cp\u003e1\" x 3\", about .5 fl oz\u003cbr\u003eOil distilled from lavender flowers \u003cbr\u003eFRANCE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLavender oil from the hills of Mont Ventoux, in Provence, France. We visit the farmer every summer for my annual lavender oil purchase. It's nice to have their product here with us at KIOSK. Lavender is calming. No additives or preservatives. Use as a perfume, to scent linens add into water and spray; put a little in a dish, it is a very clean way to clear the air in a space. When flying, I dab a bit on here and there. Historically used in baths - the name lavender comes from the Latin root lavare, which means \"to wash.\" Good for insomnia, headache, anxiety, stress, among other things. Essentially everything for an urban lifestyle! Great as a mosquito repellent too! All-in-one! One-in-all! 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The area where we stay in Provence has loads of old ocher mines where you can find sands ranging from perfectly white, through reds, to deep purple. Purple and white are so rare that they are forbidden to collect, but you can still see the hues on the cliffs in nature. That \"lake\" we swim in was once an ocher mine where one day, while drilling, they hit water and suddenly the entire place was submerged. Of course today's fear is the mine will collapse and the water and everything in it will be sucked into the depths of the earth. This leads to a very touchy swimming situation if you are the panicky type. But what the heat can do! These colors represent the tones of the Vaucluse, the nature itself. You can mix them with water or a binding agent, casein paint, etcetera. Many, many years ago in my first apartment I mixed similar pigment with paint and painted my bathroom (only a toilet; the sink and shower were in the kitchen) a wash of red to orange to yellow. 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These plates are part of the \"Calotte\" collection produced by the Ravel factory, founded in 1837 just outside of Marseille, their opening being around the same time Dumas wrote \"The Count of Monte Cristo\". The story of the sea continues, as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003ein the 19th century, these plates existed only in a deep, bowl-like version; they were known as \"crew plates\" (*assiettes d'équipage*), primarily used by sailors, the form being good when on the seas. Time passed, about 100 years goes by; in 1946, Mr. Gilbert Ravel decided to expand the series to include dinner plates and dessert plates, as well as salad bowls, serving platters, and more, to create a complete dinnerware set. Today, they continue to be made in the original factory in the traditional way, one by one by hand.  From count to crackers, it is no matter to me, these plates make me feel the warm beauty of the sun every morning, one can feel it, the color. 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