Product Description

This text displays the entire peasant repetoire of regional dishes, with "the native soil clinging to their roots" and discloses the region of south-west France where great French food still lives and breathes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98305 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

The Times, Dec 03
There are no photographs... but with writing like this, is there any need? Each recipe shouts authenticity

Bristol Evening Post, Jan 04
This is a modern classic cookbook and every home should have a copy

Sunday Telegraph, November 03
Her love for the rich tastes of the region is reflected in her classic, hearty recipes

Customer Reviews

excellent cookery, social and historic guide to Southwest Fr
This book is a pleasure to read and a fountain of information on how to cook in the authentic, southern French way. Having spent some time in Gascony, I was taken straight back there by her descriptions of village markets. Her research is impeccable and her comments among the recipes makes this a book to sit down and enjoy as well as use.

Live In France so love this book
I have only just bought this book and have read it through and tried a couple of the recipes, so far so good, it's going to be a book I use a lot.

It's so useful, I live in France and cannot read French very easy as yet, so this book all in English is going to help me a lot. The Glossary at the back is brilliant for learning French cooking terms, also the Appendix on Foie Gras,great.
It also has a brilliant section on Le Vin, how to make your own Liqueurs, again we have an abondance of fruits at the end of the season. Can't wait to make La Gnole (wild plum brandy) wow or the Hypocras now this does sound easy to make, think I will make this today!

The recipes as so French, the products you can get at any market here in France or in the UK
If you are missing your favourite Holiday Auberge food, this book has the recipes in it.

Recipes as very easy do follow and taste wonderful
My favourite so far is Les Coquilles St Jacques A La Bordelaise, page 140
Prepared it for friends on Sunday and they loved it. The Armagnac just did it!! tasted wonderful.
Scallops are on are market every week and are so cheap to buy.
Well worth buying the book if you love true french food.

excellent recipes, excellent evocation of SWFrance
A deeply felt salute to the gastronomic riches of Gascony and the regions around it. The recipes are great and the text around the recipes is worth the price of the book alone. Thorough, charming, and highly recommended for even serious cook and for those who love the 'real' France.