In the Bouches de Rhone, Aix-en-Provence is a perennial favourite, and people also search down near Marseilles and the coastal resorts.

BBC: Living in: Provence

Need to keep the amuse-bouches warm while you prepare the main course?

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Dvorak's Slavonic Dances are familiar as individual numbers, often played as encores or musical amuse-bouches before the main event of a concert.

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