A mom, blogger, cooking show host and a cookbook author Mimi Thorisson is a self-made rural lifestyle lady living with her family of three kids and a husband photographer Oddur Thorisson in Medoc, France. Raised between Hong Kong family restaurant, Paris bistrots and her French granny home she absorbed the art of living "art de vivre" since her early ages. After few years they settled in Medoc, she decided to run the "Manger" blog to share her culinary experiences and later published a book A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse.