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Duck season, eating, drinking, and other misadventures in Gascony--France's last best place, David McAninch

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non fiction

Duck season

950745287

David McAninch

eating, drinking, and other misadventures in Gascony--France's last best place

A delicious memoir about the eight months food writer David McAninch spent in Gascony--a deeply rural region of France virtually untouched by mass tourism--meeting extraordinary characters and eating the best meals of his life. Though he'd been a card-carrying Francophile all of his life, David McAninch knew little about Gascony, an ancient region in Southwest France mostly overlooked by Americans. Then an assignment sent him to research a story on duck. After enjoying a string of rich meals--Armagnac-flambéed duck tenderloins; skewered duck hearts with chanterelles; a duck-confit shepherd's pie strewn with shavings of foie gras--he soon realized what he'd been missing. McAninch decided he needed a more permanent fix. He'd fallen in love--not only with the food but with the people, and with the sheer unspoiled beauty of the place. So, along with his wife and young daughter, he moved to an old millhouse in the small village of Plaisance du Gers, where they would spend the next eight months living as Gascons. Duck Season is an irresistible treat for Francophiles and gourmands alike

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