Sud de France is my kind of cookbook. For a start, it is all about the food and culture of Provence. OK, it is in fact about the food of the Languedoc, but as Languedoc borders Provence just five minutes away from our house, over the Rhône River at the town of Beaucaire, it Sud de France, The food and cooking of Languedoc by Caroline Conran[Read More]
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New Years Day in Provence with Aigo boulidou, or Garlic Soup
In France, the Christmas festive days are spent inside with the family, but for le réveillon, or New Year’s Eve the doors are flung open and all and sundry are invited in. Everyone must have a party to go to and if they don’t they go to a restaurant or hotel to celebrate New Years Day in Provence with Aigo boulidou, or Garlic Soup[Read More]
Poppies and Chocolates
From snails (and puppy dogs tails) to sugar and spice and all things nice; I have decided this week to write about chocolate and poppies. Everyone in and around Saint Remy knows the chocolate shop, Joel Durand; it is more than just a chocolate shop, it is a roller coaster Poppies and Chocolates[Read More]
