Christmas in Provence: Vin Cuit and 13 Desserts
Elizabeth Gabay · Taste
Contributor blog post by Elizabeth Gabay:
Vin cuit and the 13 desserts are a traditional combination served at Christmas in Provence. Today, however, the 13 desserts are often only symbolically represented – with baskets filled with a selection of dried and glacé fruits and nuts, available in most food shops around Christmas – and few people know of vin cuit.
…Continue reading here to learn about why black and white nougat, walnuts, almonds, calissons and dried figs are part of the 13 desserts traditionally service in Provence at Christmas.
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Elizabeth Gabay
I first started coming to Provence regularly in the mid-1980s when, with my family, we invested in a small cottage in the central Var. I started to specialise in the wines of the area, selling them in the UK – way before Provencal rosé became fashionable. A 10 year pause in the 1990s while I worked at the Master of Wine degree, got married and had my two children before we decided to make a move to France full time. Based to the north of the wine region of Bellet and Nice since 2002, I write about the wines of south east France and Liguria (as well as other countries). I particularly enjoy the cultural and historical background to wine and some of the more obscure facts.
Visit Elizabeth Gabay MW here as she covers south eastern France (and related topics).
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