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Contributor to The Guardian · The Times · National Geographic Traveller · BBC Travel · France Magazine (Editor 2006-2016)

Subject: Food & Drink

Oysters

Finistère

Beyond the crêpe: the real food of Brittany’s wild western tip

Oysters from Belon, langoustines from the bay, butter from Bordier. Finistère is one of France's great food destinations — and almost nobody treats it as one.
Baked cheese

Normandy

The Norman table: eating your way through apple country

Calvados, camembert, crème fraîche — Normandy's larder is one of France's richest. Here is where to find it at its best.
Paris skyline

Paris

My favourite places to go in Paris

Paris is endlessly written about and endlessly surprising. After twenty years of visiting — for work, for pleasure, for the cheese shops on the Île Saint-Louis and the bistros nobody puts in guidebooks — these are the places I keep going back to. The ones that have never let me down.