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From Soil to Soul: African Vegan Recipes  by Stephane Kotto and the Pan-African Plant-Based Alliance (2024) is unique and more than a recipe book.    The book’s biggest strength is its deep and diverse dive into African plant-based cuisine covering dishes from the five regions of the African continent: South, East, Central, West, and North. It does more than provide recipes as it weaves in history, Pan-Africanism, Ubuntu philosophy, and Maat principles linking plant-based eating to cultural identity and ethical values.   It is educational with information on health, history, and environmental sustainability. It takes a strong stance against neocolonial food systems, promoting self-sustainability. The incorporation of indigenous knowledge pushes back on the myth that veganism is a Western concept.   Another strength is that it reinvents classic dishes using plant-based alternatives instead of simply removing animal products – such as plant-based mince in South Af...

  Artist Lien Pham is exhibiting her work in the Town Hall of the 6the arrondissement from 28 February to 19 March 2025.   Born in Hanoi in Vietnam, Lien Pham arrived in Paris 25 years ago, settling into the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area where she lives and works. Trained in fashion design, she was initially a fashion designer. She attended art school in 2021 where she explored her interest in pictorial art.    Her exhibited artwork is about “peaceful dreams linking nature to the line, through space, sea, and mountains” with a striking use of colours. MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite    I    Rainy Day Healing    I    Martinasblogs    I    Publications    I    Facebook    I    Paris Website    I    Paris blogs    I   Animal Website    I   Flower Website   I   Global Gentlemanliness SUBSCRIBE TO MARTINA NICOL...

If Paris Were My Lover : Launch Day Has Arrived! Today is the day!  If Paris Were My Lover   is officially out in th e world . This journey began as a whisper   – a  lingering question about the ways we fall in love, not just with people, but with places, memories, and the versions of ourselves that only exist in certain corners of the world. For me, that place has been Paris.   This book is a love affair told in fragments. It is for those who have ever wandered through a city and felt something shift deep inside. It is for th ose  who know that some places call to us like an unfinished sentence, waiting to be completed.   Paris is more than a postcard or a perfect café table. It is a city that mirrors our own complexities—the contradictions of beauty and solitude, passion and melancholy, adventure and stillness. In these pages, I have woven together fiction ,  memor ies and  poetry, crafting a story that invites you to ask:  What if a c...

The “Contemporary Engraving: Hyphens” exhibition is held in the Town Hall of the 6 th arrondissement of Paris from 15 February to 8 March 2025.    Artists were asked to create three variations of a work of engraving from the  same matrix – and to highlight the freedom of expression and technical richness of printmaking.    Nearly 40 engravers took up the challenge to appear in the exhibition. The exhibition highlights the diversity of printmaking in France and abroad.    A special tribute is paid to Adolphe Cieslarczyk (1916-2024) who passed away at the age of 108.  Dominique Moindraut Amalfi Rendon-Zipagauta Nicolas Sochos Brigitte Pazot Anne Rolland Takako Hirano Takako Hirano Eijiro Ito Jean Lodge Adolphe Cieslarczyk Line Sialelli Alain Cazalis Rosemary Piolais Violaine Fayolle Nathalie Ranson Ana Sartori   MARTINA NICOLLS MartinaNicollsWebsite    I    Rainy Day Healing    I    Martinasblogs ...