This time of year, wandering through the market in Tarascon, or any other town or village in Provence, it's easy to see how the dish ratatouille came about; the vegetables, crammed next to each other on trestle tables are practically asking to be taken home and cooked Ratatouille[Read More]
Provence
Tarascon Castle and Good King René
Tarascon, where I have a house, is situated on the banks of the river Rhône directly across from the town of Beaucaire. The bridge between the two of them provided the gateway to Provence and was part of the Via Domitia, the road built by the Romans to link Northern Europe with Tarascon Castle and Good King René[Read More]
L’Abbaye de Frigolet
I originally wrote this in 2013, and some of the information may no longer be correct, however, I wanted to resend this, as the week before last saw terrible fires that tore through the Montagnettes, destroying huge sways of the forest. The firemen worked tirelessly through two L’Abbaye de Frigolet[Read More]
A visit to Lilamand, Artisanal makers of Fruit Confit in Saint-Rémy de Provence
Christmas in Provence is steeped in tradition, both religious and culinary. It’s the culinary ones that mainly survive today and one of these is the eating of glacé, or candied fruit during the festivities. Now candied fruit is not something that I think about A visit to Lilamand, Artisanal makers of Fruit Confit in Saint-Rémy de Provence[Read More]
Honey from Provence
With all the media attention in the last week about blue honey - for those of you who missed it, bee-keepers in the northeast of France were shocked to discover that the honey in their hives had taken on the very un-natural hues of blue and green. And though it might seem like Honey from Provence[Read More]
