Sweet Pie and other ideas from Camont

Tell me about pie and one person springs to mind. Kate McDermott. The Art of the Pie. From a flour dusted apron to her sunny blue chapeau, Kate is my inspiration for all things round and sweet. When we met last year in Seattle for the first time, to bake side by side our American/Franco versions of apple pie, the Sisters of the Pie was born. Our wonderful pie- lovin’ filmmaker Luuvu captured the movement here. Sisters of the Pie from by.luuvu... Read More

Duckys- cornmeal ducklard cookies

It is just 26 days to D-day. January 1 2010 is Duck Day and I’m  counting days to my arrival on Podchef Island to help the @podchef himself, farmer, chef and food guru Neal Foley, kill, cook, cure and eat a few dozen meaty Rouen ducks. Someone declared December as ‘all-duck, all the time’ month. So as December’s kitchen becomes more and more infused with the scent of duck, I took a break from savory to sweet with these melt... Read More

Baker

A world of food-making whirls around me by the time I wake, here at Camont. Yesterday, photographer Tim Clinch and I started a week of shooting for a new book project under a flour-dusted cloud called la Boulangerie de Pierre in a modest strip mall in le Passage d’Agen. This was always a good bakery. When the previous owners retired, I sniffed over losing their very fine malted barley flutes. Soon enough, Pierre and Valerie unpacked their bags... Read More