Author: THE HOBBLEDEHOY

Michael Stevenson, aka Dai Bando, Johnny Foreigner, Monsieur Pas De Merde, is a blogger of French and British culture. His blogs "Pas De Merde" and "The Hobbledehoy" have been called "marvelous" by some, and "meh" by others.

Pauline Croze and Brazilian Wave


Outside its usual pop-folk trails, the Pauline Croze brunette swaying now offers a getaway with a couple of occasions disk of bossa nova standards, Portuguese and French, Nougaro to Jobim, of Moustaki Chico Buarque. The opportunity to return, but not limited to, the rich relations that the French song with bossa nova, and more broadly, the musical colors of Brazil. Quite a trip!On the stage of La Mano in Paris on May 25 , she sways, smiles, dresses in bright sounds, is adorned with tropical music, befitting him well, these winds swaying rhythms, which is n ‘was not used to see her dressed … We knew the brunette Pauline Croze for her folk-pop-rock songs to groove trends. […]

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Noir thrillers: pinot with a difference 

When wine lovers talk of pinot, they’re generally using it as shorthand for pinot noir, the grape variety responsible for the world’s most fabulously silky-sensuous red wines. But do the various other grapes with the pinot prefix deserve to share in the limelight? Few make the case for pinot blanc, a white-berried mutation of pinot noir that makes soft, unshowy dry whites that are sometimes dismissed as the unthinking man’s chardonnay. But a couple of recent finds from Germany (where it’s known as weissburgunder) reminded me that it’s capable of rather better than that.

Source: Noir thrillers: pinot with a difference | David Williams | Life and style | The Guardian

Apparently eating cheese could be the key to a longer life

Finally, some good news.

New research from Nature Medicine suggests that eating cheese could be the key to living longer.

That’s right. Cheese is what you need to live forever. The stuff you find on pizza, in toasties, and mixed into mac ‘n’ cheese. The light of your life. That stuff.

The study suggests that consuming spermidine, a compound found in aged cheese, could make you live longer.

Read the full srory : Apparently eating cheese could be the key to a longer life | Metro News