How to make the perfect cheeseboard

Say cheese!

Is there any more perfect way to end an evening than with a cheeseboard?

When we are out at a restaurant, many of us want to skip the meal and go straight to the cheese course.

Whether you are hosting a dinner party or just want to treat yourself, you can make your very own cheeseboard at home.

Choose your cheese and friends wisely then host a cheese-filled evening. Why not go wild and ask your guests to BYOC – bring your own cheese?

You might be a cheese aficionado or this could be your very first try but here is all you need to know about putting together the perfect cheeseboard [ . . . ]

Source: How to make the perfect cheeseboard – Independent.ie

Outcry as Cannes Film Festival poster ‘thins’ Claudia Cardinale’s curves

The official poster for this year’s Cannes Film Festival sparked an outcry Wednesday over claims that Italian actress Claudia Cardinale’s thighs had been airbrushed to make them thinner.

 

French media poured scorn on the festival for seemingly tampering with a photograph of Cardinale swirling her skirt on a Rome roof in 1959.

“Claudia Cardinale dropped a dress size in one swirl,” said the left-leaning Liberation, while the culture magazine Telerama questioned why it was necessary to retouch the famously sexy star when she was in her heyday.

“While the poster is magnificent, the photograph has clearly and deplorably been airbrushed to thin the actress’s thighs. What a pity,” it said. [ . . . ]

Read Full Story: Outcry as Cannes Film Festival poster ‘thins’ Claudia Cardinale’s curves – France 24

Paris’s Hidden Treasure 

The Room Dufy

[ . . .] Despite having been regulated to second-class status, tourism-wise, the City of Paris Modern Art Museum contains what is arguably the single most interesting room in any museum in Paris: the Room Dufy.

The Room Dufy is a room large and triangular, with rounded points and about 600 square feet of floor space. The museum’s website, rather depressingly, says it can host dinner for 50. The walls are 30 feet high and made-up of 250 panels, all painted by Raoul Dufy. Dufy was perhaps the greatest colorist who ever lived, and the room is a shiver and silence-inducing explosion of color. [ . . . ]

Read Full Story: Paris’s Hidden Treasure | The Weekly Standard

French Film Release: Joachim Lafosse’s “L’économie du couple” (After Love)

Joachim Lafosse (Our Children) Discusses his latest drama L’économie du Couple (After Love). An intelligent and compassionate portrayal of a divorcing couple forced to share a home, it features poignant performances by Bérénice Bejo and Cédric Kahn who both display a stunning level of dramatic range and depth.

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