Musings

Writings about terroir, drink, food, and food culture.
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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 summer, Cadre is kicking off a new project to champion the producers who are defining the New California. The Alt-Cali Dinner Series is our homage to the entrepreneurial spirit of independent winemakers, a series of [...]
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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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Recipe

Bouillabaisse: Live Cooking Demo with Cap Times

We were happy to participate in the first event of a video cooking series with the Cap Times. For this event, Cap Times food editor Lindsay [...]
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