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Featuring 25 recipes from the South of France for cooler fall weather, along with menu suggestions, all designed to make your cooking experience enjoyable. Download this PDF, which includes recipes for starters, main courses, side dishes, and desserts.

 Taste

Enjoy theses articles for a sample of  the food and drinks from Provence. After all one cannot survive on sightseeing and culture alone! The pleasure of eating French food extends well beyond Paris. Pull up a seat at a Provencal table, and you may still be talking about food 3-4 hours later, but will have no regrets. Our writers share their restaurant recommendations. Learn about our favourite local food markets. Meet the chefs, enjoy a cooking class or indulge in a culinary holiday. There are artisanal food producers and more gastronomic pleasures. However, the food tastes better with a glass of local wine. Apero is cocktail time in Provence – enjoy the regional sips (wines and spirits) in these articles.

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Deborah Pham van Xua · Dessert · Provencal Recipes · Taste

Lavender Roasted Apricots for a Delicious and Quick Summer Dessert

August 15, 2025
Apricots are abundant in the Provence markets in the summer months. The delicious dessert with lavender-roasted apricots below comes from ElsaLenthal.com and has been republished with her permission. Apricots: Summer Stonefruit Apricots are stonefruit (Latin: Prunus sect. Armeniaca) related to plums. The fruit grows on a small tree, about the same size as an olive …
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Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Explore · Provencal Recipes · Villages Towns and Cities

5 Reasons Why We Love Aix-en-Provence

July 10, 2025
Today’s Aix-en-Provence was founded in 122 BC when the Romans moved from Entremont, an oppidum established by the Salyens, a Celtic-Ligurian tribe. The new settlement was Aquae Sextiae (“the waters of Sextius”), a tribute to the highly respected Roman consul Caius Sextius Calvinus. Strategically located, this new city had access to natural water sources. While …
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