Chateau, Jardin, Cuisine

Chateau, Jardin, Cuisine highlights some of the exquisite dishes of this southern regionof France, where Mediterranean traditions combine with the nourishing recipes from itsnorthern plateau. Famous for goats cheese and chestnuts, the cuisine of the Ardèche evokesmemories of stony fields, rugged castles, remote farms and old stone houses, a mountainousland with rivers full of eels, wild trout in rock pools, where autumn brings an abundance ofgame, wine and mushrooms. Yet nature has also dealt the Ardèche a difficult hand: the stonyand dry soil as well as the steep terrain divided into countless small terraces make farming andcooking with the produce a true labour of love – as is this book.