With winter comes truffle season! Truffles grow under specific kind of oak trees and under very precise conditions of humidity and ground composition. Traditionally, the pigs would be used to find the precious mushroom. We don't have the famed pigs, but a friend took...
Gastronomy
Provencal cooking classes
In Vaison, we are blessed with fabulous markets and grocery stores: cooking and long meals with friends and family are one the best way to enjoy the Provencal way of life. If you would like to learn more about local cuisine, Gisele is your best bet. Her cooking...
Vaison-la-Romaine’s Market
Tuesday is the day. Market is a very big deal here, and the big Tuesday market (there is a smaller one on Saturday and an even smaller one on Thursday evenings) is renowned since Roman times. There are of course fruits a vegetables, but also plants, house hold items,...
Autumn
With Autumn comes Halloween.. Our pumpkin carving does look a bit daft compared to Peyrerols chocolate sculpture.. Autumn also sees mushrooms appearing at the market stalls 🙂 SaveSave
Grocery shopping in Vaison
Food shops in town are outstanding, so don't miss on out that experience, you won't regret it! Lou Canestou, Fromagerie Has to come first, it's Vaison's institution. Josiane Deal, the cheese monger, received the medal of "Meilleur Ouvrier de France", a very highly...
Carawine
Or friends and neighbours from up the road, a family of hard working and party animal vintners, make excellent the excellent Cote du Rhone wine: Mas Pouperas. The "Carawine" is their latest and greatest idea: a caravan is set in one of their vineyards, and works as a...
Producing olive oil
After the first frost, the olives can be harvested. ... We have a very modest production, but can still bring it to a mill to be pressed and get our oil back, it's very satisfying.
Spring
Spring is heaven for the garden colours Easter colours mimic the pastels from the garden.With of course, the chocolate creativity of Peyrerol, whose shop gets a queue spreading to the street for Easter, same as Christmas and New Year, it is advisable to...
Soil to table, potager @ la Baye des Anges
This year again, the kitchen garden has been a blessing... Just steps from the kitchen are growing strawberries, beans, potatoes, salads, tomatoes. healthy eating has never been easier and more delicious 🙂 Feveroles Bourrache flowers Courgettes and spring onions...