Author: Ameena Gorton

My name is Marion. I am French although a “world citizen” at heart! I launched my company — In Flight — in 2003. It specializes in Property Management for second homeowners in the Luberon and Alpilles region.

A strong taste for adventure and discovery has always been my motor! Choosing the “roads less traveled” has led me to live in various countries until 2000 (the U.K., Germany, the French Caribbean and the U.S.A.) — and even to travel transatlantic from France to the Caribbean — working on a large sailboat!

My cosmopolitan life, work experience and sensitivity have led me to be proficient in dealing with the challenges faced in multilingual and multicultural living.

After coming back to the “Provence of my teenage years” I committed myself to assisting the international community by helping them to manage their property in Provence and to develop their projects. My personal and professional background naturally guided me to help second-home owners lighten their daily life by managing their property, house staff, administrative procedures and to participate in the development of their projects in Provence. So I regrouped my expertise and skills into a service directed at the growing Anglo-American community in the Luberon and the Alpilles.

I have also had the opportunity to coordinate and organize private cultural events. These various experiences have contributed to building an eclectic and trusting network in the region, which I gladly rely on according to the missions assigned.

Developing In Flight has been a great experience and has allowed me to create constructive and rich connections between French culture and the international community since 2003.

More about Marion : www.inflightluberon.com

Tasha Powell is a food stylist and writer who specializes in working with celebrity chefs and leaders in the hospitality industry. She cooks and styles for monographs, cookbooks and Satellite Media Tours, working between North America and Europe. Take a look at her mouthwatering photos on Cooking with a French Twist.

Tasha also arranges culinary tours with Barbara Pitcher in Provence, France, in Sicily, Italy and in Parry Sound, Canada under Pitcher and Powell Cuisine and Culture. The trips are designed for adventurous women and include cooking classes, yoga classes, guided tours featuring local specialties.

She has been a contributing writer for Perfectly Provence since 2018 where she shares her culinary experiences, recipes and demos. Perfectly Provence is a food, travel and lifestyle magazine for the South of France and the French Riviera. Perfectly Provence has been rated in the top 100 French Blogs and includes targeted regional content for both tourists and for those who have chosen the area for their permanent home.

Tasha, who lives in Los Angeles and part-time in Aix-en-Provence, provides publicity for food writers and food service professionals through social media, online and other broadcast channels.

She consults with a wide range of clients who need recipe development and photography for print and online projects. Food styling for TV segments and feature films is a major part of her work. Tasha relishes the variety of skills that food styling requires: the artistic nature of food presentation, the fast-paced work on sets and the magic of using secret ingredients, techniques and tools. In addition, related prop styling helps make the clients’ products look amazing on camera.

As a culinarian, there are unique opportunities to learn new techniques, recipes, ingredients, plating ideas, food customs and camera angles. She is especially inspired by international cuisines and travel to foreign countries. Tasha completed Le Cordon Bleu chef training at a Michelin starred restaurant in the Luberon region of France.

Connect with Tasha: 

Facebook: Tasha Anne Powell & Pitcher & Powell
Instagram:@tashaannepowell & @pitcherandpowell

Hi,
Born in Jamaica, brought up in SE Asia, then to school in the UK where my parents came to retire, neither of them having ever lived in England, I fulfilled a dream and adventured out to France at the age of 19 having inherited very itchy feet. I met the man who was to become my husband then and settled in the North of France. I obtained dual British and French nationality in 2020, 42yrs later..

We had a great life in the North of France for 33yrs. I created and ran my own training, translating and interpreting company with over 27 people of different nationalities working with me, mainly in the very masculine world of heavy industry, seamen and port operations near Dunkerque. My life was very different to what it is today and we were very full-on with a large B&B which gave us a fabulous place to live with our 2 kids, 7 horses, 4 dogs and other animals, a super busy life…

All that may have been a bit too much so when my biggest client went into receivership, I had a major burn out in 2010 after a run of difficult years managing family illness.
It was time to reinvent our lives which we had already done a couple of times before and my husband had always wanted to own an antique shop in Isle sur la Sorgue. I didn’t even know where that was but we were ready for a new adventure. We spent nearly 6 months travelling with no ties as our daughters had both left the nest, dreamy…we had sold up and were off.

Here we are with a rambling hamlet of houses and rooms to let at Le Domaine Saint Jean, our guest house which we run together now, out in the vineyards and cherry orchard hills. A huge project over the last 9 years which will keep us going for another few.

The guest house and cooking for guests is my main activity but I still have an interest in training and antiques, our other business’s over the last 25yrs and I’m happiest when I host organised groups or residential workshops for small teams who come to Provence for coaching weeks, one day art sessions in my art studio, immersion courses for language learning and photography workshops which attract people from all over the world.

If you’re near Saint Saturnin les Apt come and see us, there’s always a warm welcome and if you’re too far to come round you can always pop in and take a look at our website or IG page and I can help you organise your next workshop or maybe just a relaxing holiday here in the Luberon.

Website is www.ledomainesaintjean.com and Instagram @ledomainesaintjean