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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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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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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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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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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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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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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