Musings

Writings about terroir, drink, food, and food culture.
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Le Pays Dinners

Pays de Gascogne

  Gascony is the perfect origin point to start our journey exploring the pays or natural territories of France. In fact, the first regional cookbook anywhere was published here: Le Cuisiner Gascon (1740). And to this day, Gascony remains the opening to France’s cornucopia of cuisine. Located in the extreme southwest (Sud Ouest) of France; the region’s borders are generally [...]
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Wine

Join a Culinary Exploration of Rare Wines and Exquisite Courses

Even if we haven’t collectively acknowledged it, the narrative of the California wine industry is broken, and it’s time for new heroes to emerge. This [...]
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Le Pays Dinners

Pays de Bretagne

South of Pays de Normandie and north of the mouth of the Loire River at Nantes lies the picturesque peninsula of Brittany which juts out [...]
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Le Pays Dinners

Pays de Loire

This week for Pays de Loire, Cadre is presenting a wild game-focused menu to represent the regions of Maine, Anjou, and the Vendéen bocage of [...]
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Le Pays Dinners

Pays de Centre Val

Although the furthest tendrils of the Loire River reach from its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the geographical center of France [...]
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Le Pays Dinners

Pays de Limousin-Auvergne

There are many ways of dividing the country of France: Geographically, culturally, and gastronomically.  This week Cadre is traveling north from Toulouse into a region [...]
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Le Pays Dinners

Pays de Toulouse

The great French historian, Fernand Braudel once called France “the isthmus of Europe”. If this is the case then to draw a comparison to our [...]
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