charcuterie news
Summer + pigs = too much fun.Some people are wondering what I am doing. Too much.Some people know that when it gets quiet here, I am busy making magic happen.This summer the magic is happening with the help of a gang from Portland OR and Philly PA.Call it summer school, call it Camp France. I am the Camp director, Bacon is the mascot.The souvenirs will be stuffed into sausage casings, cured in salt and processed in a water bath. The larder is filling. The centuries old kitchen... Read More
Kate Hill’s Gascon Kitchen
Place
Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Flash video. Located just four hours southwest of Paris in the fertile Garonne river valley, the Kitchen-at-Camont is uniquely French. Built of stone, brick, and river rock, the 18th-century farmhouse, rustic outbuildings and gardens are perched on a sleepy canal, in Gascony, one of the most diverse agricultural regions in France. Here, orchards, vineyards, market gardens, and rolling fields of grain and sunflowers connect historic... Read More
French Facts
Where is Gascony? “It is not down in any map; true places never are” –Herman Melville The invisible ancient duchy of Gascony, long gone from any maps, is located in the southwest of France, and still lends its name to this very true place, a distinct gastronomic region bordered by the Garonne River to the north and the Pyrenees to the South. The Kitchen-at-Camont is located on the site of an 18th century farm in the township of Ste. Colombe-en-Bruilhois, near Agen... Read More
Our Teachers
Learn from butchers, bakers, and Armagnac makers. Live France. Meet the people who turn dirt into food. My friends and neighbors, your teachers and mentors: Jacques, Yvette, Bridgitte, Denis, Patricia and Guillaume. When I arrived in Gascony over 20 years ago, I barely spoke enough French to get by. Shopping at farmers markets became an exercise in point and shoot French. “That rabbit, s’il vous plait. Now, how do I cook it?” #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1... Read More
