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1 week ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
It has been full-on immersion in country living in eastern Canada these past few weeks, and I’ve been completely anti-social as a result. Big projects demand focus, and my priority right now has been decluttering our family house. After five generations of accumulating stuff, it’s no mean feat.
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2 weeks ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
As promised, as a huge thank you to paid subscribers I have made a six-part series wherein I make a recipe from each of my books. All this was shot in the garden on the property where we lived until this spring, when we pulled up our tent pegs and moved to Paris. I thought it would be a nice way for us to have some time together, so I hope you enjoy the…inspiration to make life inviting, even on a crappy dayinspiration to make life inviting, even on a crappy day • Laura Calder and Isabelle Fish
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3 weeks ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
It never ceases to amaze me how we can be so fully present in one place and then, instantly upon leaving it, have the place seemingly vanish into thin air behind us as we become completely absorbed by somewhere else. It’s like having a person alive and well in front of you and then, with a single exhale, gone and inaccessible forevermore. It leaves you stunned.
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1 month ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
According to a recent article in our national newspaper, table terror appears to be a thing. Who knew? And what’s the cause, or are there many? Do you have any theories? Leave a commentThat’s the topic of our latest video, above. Let us know your thoughts about that, as well as where you stand on the open kitchen vs. closed kitchen design debate (and why). Leave a comment
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1 month ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
A few years ago, a little bird whispered into my ear that the family-owned Limoges porcelain house, Bernardaud, was developing a sort of school that would be dedicated to themes concerning the table. My heart leapt at the news, and when on this return to Paris I discovered that the Institut Bernardaud had finally opened, it practically did the tango. The offerings are greater than I’d expected. LAURA CALDER: A Place At My Table is a reader-supported publication.
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1 month ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
“I’m asparagused out,” I was telling a friend. “I’m going to start turning it all into velouté,” which is a sure sign you don’t want to lay eyes on another spear of the stuff for another 12 months. (Not a bad sign, really.
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1 month ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
Peter and I were reaching the end of the Robert Doisneau exhibit in the Musée Maillol when a great pounding began on the rooftops. Everyone gasped and all eyes shot from the photographs to the windows where hail was pelleting down from the heavens, Gatling-gun style. Once outside, we were shocked to find the pavement cobblestoned with Gobsmacker-sized ice pellets that shopkeepers with big brooms were trying to sweep away before anyone’s feet went out from under them.
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1 month ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
Last week was my birthday, and the fine weather that ushered it in felt like a gift from the skies. Our neighbours came over with a candle-pierced lemon tart for me to blow out, and I’ve already forgotten the wish I made, so that gives you an idea of how over the hill and dottery I’m already becoming. Oh well, as one friend recently reminded me when I hit 50, I’d said at the time, “Thank God. I’m finally the age I’ve always been.”LAURA CALDER: A Place At My Table is a reader-supported publication.
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2 months ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
Always is the short answer, but I’ll do you better than that, especially when it comes to this particular type:You’re looking at a bistro table, of course, that iconic (s)eating space for 1, 2 or 3 that you find in restaurants, cafés, and terraces all over France, and indeed beyond. Its rise came along with the arrival of bistros themselves in the 19th century, when smaller tables replaced the long communal tables hitherto favoured by taverns and inns.
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2 months ago | 
lauracalder.substack.com | Laura Calder
It’s been ages since Peter and I did a video together, so I thought it was high time we drop in to say hello. (Click the play button above to watch.) Don’t worry, this won’t be a one-off. We can finally get back on track with these regular video chats, because after a year of rarely being in the same place at the same time for longer than a blink, Peter and I are side by side again, living the same life in the same spot with the same focus. Whew.
