January 13, 2010
A recent sunny, January afternoon, with a clear blue sky and temperatures hovering above freezing, got me to thinking about a similar January afternoon just over ten years earlier. My wife and I had recently purchased a walnut farm in the Périgord region of southwest France. I didn’t want to raise a family in a [...]
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December 21, 2009
Traditionally, a holiday meal in France features roast lamb, or some sort of poultry (chicken, turkey, goose or duck, or sometimes pintade (guinea fowl, in English), quail or pheasant, for the more adventuresome, or maybe even a capon, a castrated cockerel that is prized for its tenderness). Vegetarians, rare as they might be here, or [...]
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