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Tiny Pleasures #364: Drinking Memories
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Tiny Pleasures #364: Drinking Memories

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Tiny Pleasures #364: Drinking Memories

Amie Brûlée2024-12-30T22:29:05+11:00December 30th, 2024|drinks, spirits, Tiny Pleasures|

Calvados is one of my favourite tipples. It is literally liquid apple distilled into a glass. All the most delicious flavours of apples in sippable form. And it transports me instantly to the wonderful year I spent in Dinan, Brittany just after I finished uni. Yec'hed mat! (That's 'cheers' in Breton.)

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Happiness as Anarchy #76: Salty Butter

Amie Brûlée2019-08-05T21:59:56+10:00August 5th, 2019|food, Happiness as Anarchy, Things That Make Me Happy|

Butter makes everything better. However, not all butters are made equal. My favourite butter is the beurre salé de Bretagne - salted butter from Brittany. Whatever the cows in the west of France are munching on makes delicious milk, which is then churned into butter. The butter is then liberally salted with tiny, crunchy salt crystals,

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