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Category: BLANC Raymond

A chef that stayed …

Posted on March 10, 2009August 8, 2020 by AnnaBookBel

I was lucky enough to meet Raymond Blanc (very briefly) last year at a signing for this book. All in the room found him completely charming and his passion for food was totally infectious. He took time with everyone, gossiped about his TV series ‘The restaurant’, asked the children there what they liked to cook, Read More

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Le Manoir comes to Abingdon

Posted on November 17, 2008August 8, 2020 by AnnaBookBel

There was great excitement in Abingdon on Saturday. Raymond Blanc was coming to Mostly Books to do a signing – one of only a handful around the country for his autobiography A taste of my life . I got there half an hour early and was about 15th in the queue. By the time he Read More

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