Cook, Shoot & Eat Gascony…in London & Paris!
Si tu ne viens pas à La Gascogne, La Gascogne ira à toi! / “If you don’t come to Gascony, Gascony will come to you!” Paraphrased from one of my all time favorite swashbuckling movies- Le Bossu, it does indeed serve as our cry to arms to bring a bit of Gascon country magic to two city venues- Paris and London for a weekend edition of our favorite Natural Light Natural Food photography workshop. Cook, Shoot & Eat Gascony! Cook:... Read More
Charcutepalooza kids in a candy store…
My local hardware store in Agen, Fance with all the fixing to slice, grind, crock, jar and can through Charcutepalooza. Read More
What’s red & white all over? Butcher Shops in Gascony.
In the tiny Market town of Lavardac, where I go to the Wednesday Market and park down the a little road by the river, I pass this small, tidy as a pin, one-window-wide butcher shop. I call it the Meat Museum. The old scale in window on the ice box, the red and white striped awning, the yellow posters rallying the troops for bingo and angainst the new LGV- Ligne Grande Vitesse, the bottles of very good, very local wine to go with a cote de boeuf; all... Read More
This Pig Earth: Whole Hog Blog Archives here!
“A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.” John Berger from Ladle- Pig Earth For all our NEW #Charcutepalooza Friends, a historic look at what we’ve been cooking the last 5 years whilst savoring the whole hog. These archives hold dozens of pork recipes that... Read More
Poule-au-Pot…a chicken in every pot.
Camont's Henri IV Merci Henri IV*. You started a culinary tradition that outlasts event he most political promises when you declared in the late 1500′s- Si Dieu me prête vie, je ferai qu’il n’y aura point de laboureur en mon royaume qui n’ait les moyens d’avoir le dimanche une poule dans son pot! If God spares me, I will ensure that there is no working man in my kingdom who does not have the means to have a chicken in the pot every... Read More
