Sud De France

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Languedoc-Roussillion (not forgetting the Midi-Pyrenees & Aquitaine) are the regions of France most settled by English expatriate colonists. Caroline Conran has spent much time there since the early 1970s & her collection of recipes reflect years of travel conversation cooking eating & drinking. She has shared her knowledge with English readers in a previous book Under the Sun: Caroline Conrans French Country Cooking but here she concentrates upon this single region of Languedoc which curls up from the Spanish border along the Mediterranean coast as far as the Rhone valley. This is not polite France this is in your face France; its history buried amidst the Crusades & Cathars its towns & cities
- Nimes Toulouse Carcassonne Narbonne Perpignan Montpellier Beziers
- making up a fiecely independent region. Its people are passionate about rugby about hunting & foraging with a cuisine of their own more Southern simpler more earthy & less influence by the Michelin style of cooking than the rest of France. There will be information on the particular specialities such as chestnuts sweet onions Bouzigues mussels & oysters salt cod poufres (baby octopus) charcuterie salades sauvages (salads of wild plants) the rose-coloured garlic of Lautrec wild asparagus & local mushrooms. There are descriptions of places where oysters truffles chestnuts or calcots
- a giant spring onion eaten roasted on a fire of vine-prunings
- are the obsession of everyone in the community.