Gastronomie domine
REAL FOOD DINNER – South West Cuisine de Terroir by Michel Dussau
Cometh the hour, cometh the chef and his massed battalions of ducks. Our “Real-Plete Food-and-Wine Dinner” was a cartoon of Hogarthian excess juggling hilarious generosity with the swaggering exposition of the artisan’s art.
Real Food Menu by Michel Dussau
Grown men and women visibly wept as their arteries hardened during this supreme exposition of Gascon cooking. As Liza Minelli memorably sang: “Life is a cassoulet, old chum"…
A recent ‘food and wine’ moment
I was recently at a large family gathering when I stumbled across a stunning food and wine match.
Rabbit and Bourgueil Recipe
Civet de Lapin de Grand-Mere Caslot avec Bourgueil, Domaine de la Chevalerie
Loire Food and Wine - “Simply Delicious”
The beautiful and varied produce of the “Garden of France” is sufficiently stimulating to put the ardour in the most jaded of larders. Fortunately, the fabulous array of the Loire’s whites, reds, pinks, sparkling and sweet wines from its myriad grape varieties more than meets the challenge of what to drink with what…
Food of The South West
“Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local café to the speech at a formal dinner.”
- Roland Barthes
Cahors & Cassoulet - As Nature Intended
Those of you who don’t have duck fat coursing through their veins look away now for this a paean to three C’s: cassoulet, Cahors and cholesterol…