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Coordinates: 51°14′02″N 1°17′50″W / 51.233957°N 1.2972544°W / 51.233957; -1.2972544

Laverstoke
Laverstoke  Laverstoke shown within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU4916148543
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Hampshire
Fire	Hampshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • Hampshire

Laverstoke is a village in the north of Hampshire, England. It forms a parish with the nearby village of Freefolk.

Businesses include Laverstoke Park Farm

Literature[link]

In Richard Adams' Watership Down, the punt on which the rabbits escape from the Efrafans was boarded on the River Test at Laverstoke.

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Media related to Laverstoke at Wikimedia Commons

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This article is about Farm Fresh, the hip hop group. For the Virginia-area division of Supervalu, see Farm Fresh Food & Pharmacy.

Farm Fresh is a Canadian hip hop group from Brandon formed in 1994. Made up of mcenroe,^[1] Pip Skid^[2] and DJ Hunnicutt, they released their first recording The Space EP in 1994^[3] followed by a full length album named Crazy Friction in 1995.^[4]

The group soon went on hiatus and released a compact disc called Played Out, containing previous recordings and a few unreleased songs, in 1996.^[5] The band also appeared on Rheostatics' album The Nightlines Sessions, collaborating with that band on an improvised live track called "Trans Jam".^[6][7]

However, they did not record any further material as a unit until reuniting for an anniversary album named Time Is Running Out, which was released in March 2005.^[8]

All of their albums have been released on Peanuts & Corn Records.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Peanuts & Corn Records website

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Raymond Blanc OBE (born 19 November 1949) is a French chef, born in Besançon, France. Today he is one of the Britain's most respected chefs^{[citation needed]}. Blanc is the owner and chef at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel-restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England. The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scored 9/10 in the Good Food Guide. He is entirely self-taught.^[1]

Early life[link]

Blanc was born in Besançon, the capital of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, between Burgundy and the Jura mountains. While his two sisters were taught to cook by the influential Maman Blanc, his father taught Blanc and his two brothers to work in the kitchen garden. His father gave him a calendar and foraging map for his 10th birthday, and what he collected his mother taught him to cook.^[2]

Career[link]

Training as a waiter, he worked at the Michelin-starred Le Palais de la Bière in Besançon. Fired in 1972 for upsetting the head chef (Blanc offered him advice on how to cook), the manager knew of a job in England.^[2]

Not speaking English well enough to survive without a notepad, he was dispatched to The Rose Revived in Newbridge, Oxfordshire, arriving three days after arriving in Dover in his Renault 5 Gordini. Blanc married the owner's daughter Jenny, and the couple had two sons.^[2]

In 1977 the couple opened Les Quat'Saisons in Summertown, Oxford: "we mortgaged the house, owed 18 further people, and opened in a corridor between a lingerie shop and Oxfam." An overnight success, he won "Egon Ronay Guide Restaurant of the Year", two Michelin stars and a host of other distinctions.^[2]

In 1981, Blanc opened a chain of boulangeries and pâtisseries called Maison Blanc that also contain cafès. There are currently 14 branches of Maison Blanc across the country, including several in London and one in Oxford. Maison Blanc cakes are now available nationwide in Waitrose.^[3]

Blanc opened the first of a chain of smaller restaurants, Le Petit Blanc restaurants in Oxford in June 1996. Blanc's stated aim with these was to bring the French philosophy of "good food being central to good living" to the United Kingdom. His desire was to create and serve food that can be enjoyed by everyone – "from the time-conscious business person to those looking for a welcoming family restaurant". Raymond was a featured chef on Great Chefs television, appearing in Great Chefs of the World.^[4]

In June 2003, after nearly losing the chain as part of his divorce settlement to Jenny,^[2] the four Le Petit Blanc Brasseries (now known as Brasserie Blanc) in Birmingham, Cheltenham, Manchester and Oxford became part of the Loch Fyne Restaurant Group portfolio. Since then a fifth restaurant has opened in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, another in Winchester, and one in Milton Keynes. After the Tunbridge Wells Brasserie recently closed, the chain opened a new Brasserie in the lipstick tower at Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth. Blanc maintains a share in the business, and continues to be actively involved creating new menus, developing the chef and kitchen teams and participating in the promotion of the restaurants.