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  • I too enjoy a bit of darts on the telly, sipping a moderately chilled pineau des charentes, with a mini-pack of dry-roasted, or perhaps a chocolate orange handy.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Jamie took the complex blend of gin, pineau de charentes and creme de violette and put the whole mixture into a carbonator and pumped the drink full of sparkling bubbles.

    Jeffrey Morgenthaler 2008

  • Hi Melissa, you’d be better ask a “butternut” with a french accent as the farmers don’t seem to know “courge musquée”; even my grand mother who lives in the charentes maritimes went to alittle farmer market and found butternut squash under the name of “butternut”.

    foodbeam » A la recherche des butternut perdus 2005

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