{"id":68,"date":"2005-06-20T22:38:56","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T09:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/catching-up-1-patricia-wells-visits-limestone-hills\/"},"modified":"2005-06-20T22:38:56","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T09:38:56","slug":"catching-up-1-patricia-wells-visits-limestone-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/catching-up-1-patricia-wells-visits-limestone-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up #1: Patricia Wells visits Limestone Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time between entries: I blame the season, the need to work on the book, the truffle association conference, etc and so on. It&#8217;s over a month now since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciawells.com\/\">Patricia Wells<\/a>, the Provence-based American food writer, cookery guru and I<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">nternational Herald Tribune<\/span> restaurant reviewer visited Limestone Hills. She&#8217;d just won a James Beard Award for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriciawells.com\/reviews\/provbkreviews\/provence_cookbook.htm\">Provence Cookbook<\/a>, and was understandably chuffed.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.limestonehills.co.nz\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/catchingup1patriciawells.jpg?resize=425%2C366\" width=\"425\" height=\"366\" class=\"left\"\/><\/p>\n<p><i>The sun shone&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>She was over here to take some masterclasses at the Savour New Zealand weekend in early May. She expressed an interest (in a radio interview) in finding out about NZ&#8217;s truffle business so I was happy to oblige. Patricia was charming and very interested in what we&#8217;re up to. I now have an invite to visit her in Provence during the truffle season &#8211; one of those offers you can&#8217;t refuse. And if you&#8217;re interested, her truffle cooking class in January 2006 is US$4,000 for the week (and sold out long ago).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time between entries: I blame the season, the need to work on the book, the truffle association conference, etc and so on. It&#8217;s over a month now since Patricia Wells, the Provence-based American food writer, cookery guru and International Herald Tribune restaurant reviewer visited Limestone Hills. She&#8217;d just won a James &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/catching-up-1-patricia-wells-visits-limestone-hills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catching up #1: Patricia Wells visits Limestone Hills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-truffles-farm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limestonehills.co.nz\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}