Duck Season : : Eating, Drinking, and Other Misadventures in Gascony -- France's Last Best Place
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Call Number: 641.5944 McA
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Fire -- Market day -- The country life -- Old school -- Magret -- À votre santé -- La Fête -- Beautiful people -- Garbure -- Dinner at Henri's -- Into the mountains -- Poule au pot -- Hills and valleys -- Dessert -- A day in the vines -- Slow and low -- To bag a bird -- Noble spirits -- Aux armes, citoyens! -- Chez Guérard -- Le saint cochon -- Foie gras -- Confit -- Apéro -- Last supper -- Recipes.
A food writer describes the eight months he spent living in a deeply rural region of France and how he fell in love with the area, the people, and the food while herding sheep in the Pyrenees, harvesting grapes, and distilling Armagnac.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: viii, 276 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062309419
0062309412
SUBJECTS
McAninch, David -- Travel -- Gascony.
Gastronomy -- Gascony.
Food habits -- Gascony.
Cooking -- Gascony.
Gascony (France) -- Social life and customs.
Travel writing.