5 NEW things to discover at Camont this summer!
Natural Light Natural Food photography workshops w/ Tim Clinch ONE: Natural Light and Natural Food- learn the inside story of working with our resident professional photographer Tim Clinch...
View ArticleNatural Light Natural Food Photography- served 7 new ways.
Horsing around with my i-fun after a particularly good haul from a local vide grenier- or village flea market. These four new little cutting boards join the big boys in service- for charcuterie,...
View ArticleCook, Shoot & Eat Gascony…in London & Paris!
Si tu ne viens pas à La Gascogne, La Gascogne ira à toi! / “If you don’t come to Gascony, Gascony will come to you!” Paraphrased from one of my all time favorite swashbuckling movies- Le Bossu, it...
View ArticleKitchen Inspiration- look around you.
Morning. It’s Saturday. Here in Gascony that means Market morning. From Camont, there are lots of choices of where to go for the Saturday morning producer’s markets: Agen at the Graviere neighborhood...
View ArticleSweet Peas- Old & New
NEWS! The main market in Agen has moved! Moved to make way for a new Cine-plex to be built at the Place du Pin. ? Now, the weekly Sunday market has shifted over the road to the edge of the little...
View ArticleMonet’s Eye on Pie
When Sweet Kate McDermott and I decided to gather together a group of kindred spirits for a 4-day Pig Pie & Eye weekend beginning on the auspiciously dated 11/11/11, I had no idea we were adding...
View ArticleInspired Cooking- a January lunch menu
Pre-1970 Cooking. Cooking in France. Cooking in Gascony, France. What inspires you to cook? A recipe? A photograph in a cookbook? A blog post? Here at Camont, I look around my Gascon world for the...
View ArticleSynchronized Cooking- the new Olympic sport?
truffled homemade pasta coming up! I imagine fireflies pulsing in rhythm in a tree in some remote forest. Then a school of little silver fish darting left in unison, then blinking silver right. A flock...
View ArticleMarket Report- Spring in Southwest France
Fresh green tops, dirt clinging to the roots, heavy crunch of pure RADISH. I love this time of year at the markets. Our first local produce, much grown under poly tunnels, is filling the tables of my...
View ArticleSpring Market inspiration. Open your eyes!
Why go to the market? I mean the local farmer’s market, of course. Fresh, simple, direct- a bargain. Inspiring, colorful, nurturing- satisfaction. Diverse, diverting, fun- amused. All those words pop...
View ArticleCamp Cassoulet 2013
This year marks the 7th Annual Camp Cassoulet at Camont! Although I always give credit to the BEAN as the star of the show, this year we are featuring a special appearance by an honored guest- HAM....
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