This series of twelve seasonal monthly cookbooks features food and stories as warm and comforting as a hot supper cooked in an old French Farmhouse. Kate Hill, writer, cook, and teacher, entices the reader into her life in Southwest France as she shares the regional and delicious recipes of Gascony. Along with trucs and tips, these beautiful, poetic books offer a culinary celebration of how the seasons roll through her 18th-century kitchen at Camont in an archive of essays, stories, and over 150 recipes.
Hill's evocate and lyrical writing is present in the short seasonal essays and the recipes that illustrate each month's highlights from the region's small markets and the garden at Camont, from Winter's long-simmering soups and stews like a Poule-au-Pot and Cassoulet, to Summer's festive pique-niques and generous Gascon entertaining. Each month offers a baker's dozen of simple and authentic cooking and lifestyle from Southwestern France.