French Kitchen News- Autumn Cooking Classes

I have, at last, solved the age old question. What comes first, the chicken or the egg? Here at Camont, where once all sorts of farm animals roamed at large alongside the canal, there is no doubt. It’s the chicken. Well, actually it not THE chicken, it’s SEVEN chickens. So first we got some chickens and THEN we got some eggs. It’s that simple. First chickens and THEN eggs. New to Camont, a simple movable chicken coop placed in one of the garden squares in the... Read More

Home Sweet Gascon Home

Travel days suck the minutes out of the day and here I am, a month later having returned from la belle NZ still trying to catch up. We’ve been cooking, cooking, cooking at the French Kitchen nonstop since I returned and there is a several more weeks of Camp Cassoulet and private classes to come. The fall days color this private corner of my French world with a luminous haze, a golden silver net of spiderwebs and dew, red rosehips and falling leaves. Five new hens are... Read More