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The origins and meaning of tirer les marrons du feu
As Christmas approaches, we look at a phrase to describe someone who takes advantage of a situation
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Recipe: Corsican fiadone cheesecake
This easy-to-make cake is a traditional crowd-pleasing dessert
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Recipe: Flemish beef and beer stew
This hearty dish featuring French pain d’épice (spice bread) and gnocchi is sure to warm you up during the cold winter months
Local speciality: Anis de Flavigny
A traditional sweet from Burgundy
Flavigny Anises are hard aniseed sweets made in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, Burgundy.
Each is coated with sugar syrup and flavoured with violet, rose, mint, liquorice or orange.
Their origins lie in 719 at the hands of sweet-toothed Benedictine monks, while today a single producer, family business Troubat, makes them according to the original recipe.
