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Fish & Seafood · Main Course · Provencal Recipes · Taste

Recipe for Salt-Cod Brandade a Provencal Classic

October 12, 2018

In Portugal, the culinary rumour is that there are 365 (or more) ways to cook salt-cod (bacalhau) - one for every day of the year. Cod is called morue in French. It is quite common to find this fish on menus, and it is often the "centre" of attention in the traditional Provencal aioli (recipe here). Gilles recipe for brandade a purée of salt cod, olive oil and other ingredients is below.

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Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Explore · Guided Holiday Tours

Culinary Adventure in Provence Touring Cuisine of the Med

October 4, 2018

Culinary Holiday in France Occasionally magic happens in the kitchen, but the odds are better if you have some training. In the case of Chef Francois de Mélogue and his wife Lisa, they have a collective 30+ years in the hospitality industry, and both enjoy entertaining – a winning combination. Leveraging their love of food

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Caroline Longstaffe · Explore · Villages Towns and Cities

Our Top Local’s Picks for Your Visit to Saint Remy de Provence

October 3, 2018

Contributor blog post by Caroline Longstaffe: Recently someone who only had four days to spend in Provence asked me if I had to choose between a visit to Aix-en-Provence or Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, which would it be. Preferably I’d find the time for both but as stunning a city as Aix is, in June, for the first visit

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Books on Provence · Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Inspire

Provence Inspired Memoirs Books to Add to Your Reading List

September 26, 2018

For many, Peter Mayle’s best-selling novel A Year in Provence was their introduction to the Provencal countryside. Images of the Côte d’Azur have long covered the pages of travel magazines. Still, it was Mayle’s descriptions of bumbling through a home renovation in the arrière-pays (translation: backcountry or hinterland) that shifted our view beyond the coastline. This

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Barefoot Blogger · French Cooking Classes · Taste

Cooking Classes in Marseille? Spend a Day with the Provence Gourmet

September 14, 2018

For someone who had never spent much time in Marseille, now I’m loving it! I jumped at the chance to join a cooking class in Marseille with Gilles Conchy of Provence Gourmet. Marseille is a city of wide, busy streets and tight alleys. High-end fashions and ethnic robes. Elegant eateries and takeout pizzas. It’s everything

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Artists Inspired by Provence · Guest Post · Inspire

Aix: Artwork from Picasso and André Villers at the Pavillon Vendome

August 21, 2018

There seems to have been a deluge of Picasso work recently in Marseille, Aix, Les Baux, and Cannes, but the small exhibition at Aix’s Pavillon Vendome, ‘Villers Picasso—Coup de Soleil,‘ really is worth investigating. André Villers was just 22 and recovering from 6 years in a tuberculosis sanatorium when he met the world-famous 72-year-old artist.

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Carolyne Kauser-Abbott · Explore · Villages Towns and Cities

Understanding The Merindol Massacre and Provence’s Dark Religious History 

August 15, 2018

Plenty of villages in the Luberon Valley lay claim to les plus beaux villages de France (the most beautiful villages in France), and many of those proudly display Villages Fleuris (flowering villages) emblems on local street signs. Enchanted by weather-worn scenes of charming hilltop hamlets and gently numbed by a glass of chilled local rosé, it would

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