Description

Paperback December 4, 2018

A delicious memoir about the eight months food writer David McAninch spent in Gasconya deeply rural region of France virtually untouched by mass tourismmeeting extraordinary characters and eating the best meals of his life.

Though hed 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 mealsArmagnac-flambed duck tenderloins; skewered duck hearts with chanterelles; a duck-confit shepherds pie strewn with shavings of foie grashe soon realized what hed been missing.